{
  "id": 8071482,
  "title": "This million-year-old 'baby planet' is the youngest world scientists have ever discovered",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/this-million-year-old-baby-planet-is-the-youngest-world-scientists",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-17T18:10:12.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Live Science",
    "slug": "live-science",
    "url": "https://www.livescience.com/space/exoplanets/this-million-year-old-baby-planet-is-the-youngest-world-scientists-have-ever-discovered"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "A baby exoplanet, the youngest ever discovered, has been found orbiting a star 450 light-years from Earth. Named Elias 2-24 b, this planetary infant is less than 1 million years old, making it roughly equivalent to a two- or three-day-old baby. This milestone was achieved by combining observations from three telescopes: the W. M. Keck Observatory, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Until now, the youngest-known exoplanets were around 5 million years old. This discovery provides scientists with a rare opportunity to study the initial stages of planet formation, as our planet-formation models have struggled to explain the processes of the previous record holders.",
  "summary": "Astronomers have confirmed a large exoplanet is forming in the cloud of debris around a young star. At less than a million years old, it's the youngest exoplanet found so far.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}