The discovery was published Tuesday in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics ... but with a much smaller mass, leading scientists to describe it as “puffy.” “WASP-127b is a gas giant ...
according to Astronomy magazine. Its distance was closer to the planet than the moon— prompting the scientists to declare the asteroid had the potential to some day slam into Earth. The elite ...
“Most likely this one will pass by harmlessly,” Colin Snodgrass, an astronomer at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, tells the Guardian’s Ian Sample. “It just deserves a little more ...