They’re less dense than cotton candy, and they will help astrophysicists better understand the most unusual ways giant ...

A newly discovered exoplanet is rewriting the rules of what planets can be. Orbiting a city-sized neutron star, this Jupiter-mass world has a bizarre carbon-rich atmosphere filled with soot clouds and ...

An international collaboration has discovered two of the lowest-density giant planets ever detected: rare "super-puff" planets with densities lower than candy floss. The study—led by the University of ...

An international collaboration has discovered two of the lowest-density giant planets ever detected. The study describes rare “super-puff” planets with densities lower than candy floss. Led by the ...

This illustration depicts the Sun-like star TOI-791 and two giant planets that NASA's TESS space telescope discovered in its orbit. These planets, designated TOI-791 b and TOI-791 c, are roughly the ...

The Nature Index 2026 Research Leaders reveal the leading institutions and countries/territories in the natural sciences, health sciences, applied sciences and social sciences, according to their ...

Scientists have discovered a bizarre planetary system where a rocky world orbits farther out than giant gas planets, defying long-standing theories of planet formation. The finding hints that some ...

An international collaboration has discovered two of the lowest-density giant planets ever detected. The study describes rare "super-puff" planets with densities lower than candy floss. Led by the ...