Astronomers have discovered a strikingly unusual exoplanet: one which orbits its host stars in a totally new way. The planet ...

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It's about 11 times wider than Earth with an equatorial diameter of 88,846 ...

The data collected will help researchers understand how Uranus’ atmosphere functions and how it has evolved over the past 30 ...

Astronomers have been fascinated by Saturn's magnificent rings since Galileo peered through his telescope in 1610 and spotted bulges either side of the planet. He suspected they were moons but ...

Imagine Earth adorned with rings like Saturn; what stunning visual effects and gravitational influences would occur?

As J.R.R. Tolkien wrote in The Fellowship of the Ring, “Not all those who wander are lost.” But in the case of planets, it’s possible that most of them are.

The planet "splashed down" into the star, sending a giant plume of gas into space that gave the star a ring. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been studying the scene of a dramatic ...

The iconic rings of Saturn have disappeared but don’t worry, they haven’t gone anywhere. This week, a rare cosmic event called a "ring plane crossing" has made the planet's rings to vanish from ...

With the clock ticking, PostMag has been given exclusive access ... largest wooden architectural structure on the planet. From the top of the ring, the skyscrapers of Osaka can be seen on the ...

The building blocks for life are thought have been brought to Earth by asteroids that bombarded our planet long ago. But the amino acids that form proteins, the ring-shaped molecules that make up ...