The featherweight pair — orbiting a star 1,110 light-years away — are the biggest exoplanets found to have less density than cotton candy.

Astronomers have uncovered a pair of giant planets that are lighter than cotton candy — super-puffs the size of Jupiter. The featherweight pair — orbiting a star 1,110 light-years away — are the biggest exoplanets found to have less density than cotton candy.

A pair of sibling gas giants originally spotted by citizen scientists are so lightweight that their density resembles wispy cotton candy more than a standard atmosphere. The rare duo detailed today in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society even have an appropriate technical term to describe them.

The two planets, named TOI-791 b and TOI-791 c, orbit a dwarf star located around 1,110 light years from Earth in the southern constellation Volans.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two dozen Starlink satellites to orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Wednesday night (June 24).

SpaceX plans to launch another batch of its Starlink internet satellites into low-earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Wednesday, June 24, 2026. The company plans to launch 24 Starlink

SpaceX is planning its seventh Falcon 9 rocket launch of June at the Vandenberg Space Force Base. Want to watch the mission? Here's what to know.

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Billions of years ago, water flowed on Mars, and NASA’s Perseverance rover has been trundling along an ancient riverbed flowing into Jezero Crater searching for any signs of life that could have thrived there.

NASA’s Perseverance rover has found evidence of complex carbon in Mars’ Jezero crater, where previous evidence of possible ancient life has been found. This macromolecular complex carbon could hold evidence that ancient microbial life existed in the sedimentary material.

Could Martian mudstones be holding evidence of ancient microbes? New findings strengthen the case that the Red Planet once held life.

NASA's Perseverance rover snaps a selfie with the "Cheyava Falls" rock that has inspired discussions about potential life signs on Mars. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) We may be one step closer to answering the most tantalizing cosmic question: Are we alone?