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 ...

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

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

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

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, ...

Veteran steward Tim Mayer has thrown his hat in the ring for the FIA Presidency later this year, going up against Mohammed.

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

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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 ...