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 ...

A giant ball of gas found by astronomers could become the gold standard in measuring the atmospheres of Earth-like planets. The planet has been compared to the consistency of the Styrofoam models of ...

This is an artist's rendering of KELT-11b, a 'Styrofoam'-density exoplanet orbiting a bright star in the Southern Hemisphere. Walter Robinson/Lehigh University A new exoplanet has been discovered ...

Planet KELT-11b is an extreme version of a gas planet like Jupiter or Saturn Washington: Researchers have discovered a new giant planet orbiting an extremely bright star 320 light years from Earth ...

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 ...

A newly discovered exoplanet with the puffy density of styrofoam may become a testing ground for learning to analyze atmospheres of far-flung planets for signs of life. KELT-11B, called an exoplanet ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered a new planet called KELT-11b. The planet is so light it can float if placed in a big enough body of water. According to the Daily Galaxy's report, the European Space Agency ...