Bizarre new planet is largest known rocky world, 40 times as massive as Earth

Click Here to Read: Bizarre new planet is largest known rocky world, 40 times as massive as Earth: The bulky object—possibly the core of a failed gas giant—challenges what astronomers think about how planets form by Nadia Drake on the National Geographic website on July 1, 2020.
This artist’s concept depicts select planetary discoveries made to date by NASA’s Kepler space telescope.  Credits: NASA/W. Stenzel.