Compared to our 4.5-billion-year-old sun, ​​the 20-million-year-old V1298 Tau is a stellar baby, making it ideal for ...

Most planetary systems contain worlds larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and the low-density planets around one ...

Astronomers at the Kitt Peak National Observatory have spotted a peculiar gas giant exoplanet some 580 light-years away with the density of a marshmallow. And as it turns out, it may be the lowest ...

What is big, with a fluffy, cotton candy-like composition? Turns out, a planet. An international coalition of astronomers has newly discovered an unusual planet, dubbed WASP-193b, that’s about 50% ...

(Nanowerk News) An international team led by researchers from the EXOTIC Laboratory of the University of Liège, in collaboration with MIT and the Astrophysics Institute in Andalusia, has just ...

The discovery is 50% larger than Jupiter but nearly half as dense Heritage Space/Heritage Images/Getty Scientists have discovered a huge planet with the density of cotton candy and is 1,200 light ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

Scientists have discovered a planet that they said could float in a bathtub if you could get one large enough. The planet is about 580 light-years away from us and is orbiting a red dwarf star in the ...

Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet larger than Jupiter but incredibly lightweight, similar to cotton candy. The planet, named WASP-193b, has an unusually low density compared to gas giants like ...

Space has no shortage of weird and curious planets. Astronomers using the 3.5-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory report their discovery of a Jupiter-like world with roughly the same ...

Scientists have discovered a planet that they said could float in a bathtub if you could get one large enough. TOI-3757 b has the density of a marshmallow, according to Smithsonian Magazine. The ...