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 ...

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 ...

Maybe elementary school students were on to something when they used Styrofoam spheres to create replicas of the solar system. A new planet — discovered by a worldwide team of astronomers led by ...

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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 ...

In grade school, we all had to assemble models of the solar system with styrofoam balls. And, as we’ve been discovering new solar systems lately, perhaps we’ve all had a little nostalgia for those ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) 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 ...