So which planets in our solar system have rings? All four giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — sport these spectacular structures. Plus, many other objects in the solar system ...

Star RIK 113 is busy making a new planet in its protoplanetary disk as seen in this new image from the Very Large Telescope.

So which planets in our solar system have rings? Planetary rings might look sturdy and solid from afar, but they're made of tiny bits of ice and rock orbiting the planet. "Rings are mostly made of ...

A team of international astronomers has uncovered what may be a gas giant planet forming around a distant young star. Using ...

U.S. astronomers hunting for "Planet Nine" have instead stumbled on what appears to be a new dwarf planet in the solar system ...

The pair of stars orbit in a ring structure, and the planet orbits them around the poles. Known as a polar orbit, this is the first time a planet has been observed orbiting two stars in this way.

It's an evocative idea that has long bedeviled scientists: a huge and mysterious planet is lurking in the darkness at the ...

Lu’s work shows that HIP-41378 f has been kicked around by gravity, tilting it on its side and conveniently making the rings visible to us in a way that would make the planet appear bigger when ...

Saturn sports some of the coolest bling of any planet in our solar system. Its nine rings, which are mainly comprised of dust, rock and ice, have been the subject of scientific research for years.

but the researchers believe that any ring Earth may have had would have been caused by our planet basically turning its gravity on a nearby asteroid and ripping it apart. This happens when an ...

The planet’s silhouette revealed that it has a system of dusty rings and moons about 200 times wider than Saturn’s rings. Gaps between the rings mark where moons have cleared lanes through the ...

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