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

This exoplanet is larger but seven times less massive than Jupiter and is the second least dense planet discovered to date.

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

Scientists have discovered a "super puff" planet, and have hypothesized its density is similar to cotton candy.

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

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

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

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

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

Astronomers have discovered WASP-193 b, a giant planet with a density comparable to cotton candy. This extraordinary planet, ...

We cannot explain how this planet was formed. Looking more closely at its atmosphere will allow us to constrain an ...

“We don’t know where to place this planet within our current formation theories, because it’s an outlier to all of them,” says Francisco Pozuelos, an astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofisica de ...