Fifth-graders making styrofoam solar system models may have the right idea. Researchers at Lehigh University have discovered a new planet orbiting a star 320 light years from Earth that has the ...

NASA’s dedicated exoplanet hunter, the Kepler space telescope, has turned up five new planets. One of the planets is bigger than Jupiter but as light as styrofoam, and the findings only get crazier.

Since the largest exoplanets are the easiest to spot and study, it makes sense that distant worlds with large "puffy" atmospheres would provide the best and most abundant information about the ...

If the Stay Puft marshmallow man from Ghostbusters were a planet, it would probably be the newly discovered super gas giant, KELT 11b. The highly inflated planet is located some 320 light years away ...

The planet recently discovered by Joshua Pepper's team might be puffy, but it's far from fluff. Pepper, an astronomer and assistant professor at Lehigh University, believes that the newly found "puffy ...

A giant planet with the density of Styrofoam is one of a clutch of new exoplanets discovered by NASA’s Kepler telescope. The planets are too hot to support life as we know it, but the discoveries, ...

A team of astronomers recently discovered a 'puffy' exoplanet with the density of styrofoam orbiting the star KELT-11, approximately 320 light-years away from Earth. Led by Joshua Pepper, astronomer ...

Fifth-graders making styrofoam solar system models may have the right idea. Researchers at Lehigh University have discovered a new planet orbiting a star 320 light years from Earth that has the ...