Astronomers have detected an enormous, fluffy planet with a density akin to that of cotton candy. Dubbed WASP-193b, the ...

An international team led by researchers from the EXOTIC Laboratory of the University of Liège, in collaboration with MIT and ...

WASP-193b is 50% larger than Jupiter — the largest planet in our solar system — but seven times less massive because of it's ...

Mackey et al, The Astrophysical Journal, May 10, 2024. Funding: NASA, ESA, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica. —Partly adapted ...

This planet is 150 percent the size of Jupiter, but is somehow 7 times less dense, and has 1 percent the density of Earth.

Low-density “cotton candy planets” continue to be a cosmic puzzle for astronomers. Despite being 50 percent bigger than the ...

Located 1,200 light-years from Earth, WASP-193b is the second-lightest exoplanet ever discovered despite being larger than Jupiter.

Exoplanets exist outside the solar system and help us understand a bit more about how the universe works. “The planet is so ...

Scientists have discovered a huge planet with the density of cotton candy and is 1,200 light years from Earth. The newly ...

The new, 'fluffy' planet has been named 'WASP-193b' and was found to be located about 1,200 light years away from Earth, ...

"We're at a loss to explain WASP-193b within the framework of existing formation theories," admits study co-author Francisco ...