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Astronomers have discovered a number of “super-puff” exoplanets in the Kepler 51 star system that are as dense as cotton candy. Utilizing data from the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers found fewer ...
Fluff surrounds the solid interiors of each of the three planets in the Kepler 51 star system. Each of these planets was discovered to have masses "only a few times larger than Earth's" with radii ...
An exoplanet way bigger than Jupiter — but with a minuscule fraction of Earth’s density — has just been discovered. In a new not-yet-peer-reviewed paper, a consortium of planetary scientists based on ...