When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Alien planets may be forming inside a giant gas ring located surprisingly far from its young ...

New observations of a strange object that wobbles around the space between Jupiter and Uranus reveal what looks like a system of rings forming and evolving, even as we watch. The object, named Chiron, ...

When we look into the sky and see a single Sun, many don't realize that our solar system is unique in its arrangement. Typically, stars that look like our Sun are born with siblings. In the solar ...

For decades, astronomers have been awed by Saturn’s ring beauty. But a tiny, icy wanderer drifting between Saturn and Uranus has now stolen a little of that spotlight. A new paper released in The ...

Saturn isn't the only planet in our solar system with a ring system. While Saturn's rings are the most dramatic, the three other gas giants — Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus — each have a ring system as ...

The dust and gas around the star HD142527 observed by ALMA are shown in red and green, respectively, while near-infrared observations taken by the NAOJ Subaru Telescope are shown in blue. The dust is ...