Scientists have generated an exotic form of matter

in the unique microgravity environment aboard the International Space Station and are using it to explore the quantum world, a new study finds. There are four states of matter common in everyday life — gases, liquids, solids, and plasmas.

Has exotic matter been found?

In the last seven years, the LHCb experiment at CERN has detected about a dozen types of exotic particles made up of four quarks—called tetraquarks—or five quarks—called pentaquarks. The newly discovered tetraquark is by far the most stable exotic particle they've found.

Is exotic matter a state of matter?

Exotic matter, first theorised collaboratively by Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose in the early 1920s as a fifth state of matter (to go alongside solids, liquids, gas and plasma), was created in the Cold Atom Laboratory aboard the ISS.