Astronomers have long struggled to find young planets hidden inside the thick clouds of gas and dust that swirl around new ...

Astronomers have likely witnessed a planet forming in real time, seen inside a spiral arm of the HD 135344B protoplanetary ...

A giant gas planet comparable in size to Saturn exists around a small red dwarf star. The discovery is beyond the scope of ...

In the cosmic candy shop, there are Ring Pops (less magnificent versions of Saturn), Hot Tamales (Jupiter-like planets close to their stars and blazing hot), and even cotton candy planets (big ...

On the evening of July 24, 2025, the new moon will arrive, heralding a spectacular celestial display. As reported by Space.com, this new moon occurs at exactly 3:11 p.m. Eastern Time (1911 UTC), ...

Every 15 years, Saturn and Earth become perfectly aligned so that the gas giant's rings face our planet head-on. In March, this alignment was so perfect that the planet's super-thin rings completely ...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet – between three and ten times the size of Jupiter – hiding in the swirling disc ...

Earth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could have led to chaotic meteorite strikes on our planet's surface, new research suggests. The ...

For a very long time, Saturn was thought to be the only planet in our solar system with rings. The rings around Saturn were discovered by an astronomer called Galileo Galilei nearly 400 years ago ...

Beyond our solar system, there’s a whole selection of planets unlike anything we see around the Sun. In the cosmic candy shop, there are Ring Pops (less magnificent versions of Saturn), Hot Tamales ...