James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

Earlier research had found that the rings of Saturn respond to vibrations within the planet. Saturn's interior vibrates at frequencies that cause slight variations in its gravitational field, and the ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

After three years of helping astronomers investigate known planets beyond the solar system, the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Young planets are often too small to be detected directly, and many protoplanetary disks are too distant to be observed in detail. Instead, astronomers look for indirect evidence, such as rings, gaps, ...

Zooming in on 78 disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, scientists saw hitherto undiscovered structures around young ...

F rom the very beginning, JWST was shown to be a revolutionary instrument for the study of exoplanets, detecting intriguing ...

In a 1610 letter to the Duke of Tuscany, Galileo wrote, "The planet Saturn is not alone, but is composed of three, which almost touch one another and never move nor change with respect to one ...

Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...

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When the Blue Origin crew flew to space last April, I had no idea Lauren Sánchez brought a planet back to earth with her — ...