TIDYE-1b is just 3 million years old and is orbiting a protostar The exoplanet is 1,500 times younger than the Earth A misaligned protoplanetary disk around its host star raises new question ...

A new study has identified an exoplanet that is just 3 million years old — around 1,500 times younger than Earth — alongside a misaligned protoplanetary disk that researchers cannot explain.

An astrophysicist-in-training has found the youngest transiting exoplanet ever observed. Her discovery offers an unprecedented real-time peek at the earliest stages of a planet's existence ...