The Starlink 17-17 mission lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 26, 2026. Image: SpaceX.
SpaceX launched another batch of satellites for its Starlink internet service Thursday.
As the number of exoplanet detections has breached 6,000 and continues to grow, scientists are finding a wide variety of different solar system architectures. Critical to understanding how these architectures take shape is finding young planets forming around very young stars. In 2025 a team of astronomers announced the discovery of a planet about 5 times more massive than Jupiter around a star that's very much a younger version of our Sun.

