A bizarre planet that is enormous, but is no more dense than cotton candy, has been discovered by astronomers. This planet, named WASP-193b, is the second-least dense exoplanet ever found, with a ...

Astronomers have discovered a new planetary oddball beyond the solar system that is as fluffy and light as cotton candy. The extrasolar planet or "exoplanet" named WASP-193 b is around 1.5 times the ...

Astronomers have found planets that are twice as wide as Jupiter and more than 10 times as heavy, but there's a limit to how big planets can get. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

New models suggest Uranus and Neptune may hold far more rock than expected, raising questions about how these distant planets formed.

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a distant world in the act of falling apart, its outer layers peeling away into ...

Astronomers have discovered a gas giant planet with the density of a marshmallow orbiting a cool red dwarf star located 580 light-years from Earth. The Jupiter-like exoplanet is the lowest-density ...

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a rare kind of exoplanet in the act of falling apart, revealing a world so light ...

Ultra-accurate simulations of the gravity field guide toward a new mathematical foundation of gravity modelling. A layered Earth. (Courtesy: iStock/AlexLMX) The Earth is not a perfect sphere. This ...

An illustration of the "cotton candy" planet WASP-193b. Astronomers have discovered a new planetary oddball beyond the solar system that is as fluffy and light as cotton candy. Located around 1,200 ...

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 ...