NASA Finds Record-Breaking Baby Planet in Space

Send us a text and chime in! Astronomers have confirmed the youngest known planet ever observed, offering scientists a rare look at a world still in the earliest stages of its formation. The newly confirmed planet, named Elias 2-24 b, is less than 1 million years old and remains surrounded by the disk of gas and dust from which planets form, according to NASA. The discovery was made using observations stored in NASA-funded archives. For comparison, the previous record holders for the youngest...