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 ...

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

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of an exoplanet for the first time since it began science operations ...

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 ...

For the first time, JWST has discovered an exoplanet through direct imaging, revealing TWA 7 b, a Saturn-mass world.

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

Star RIK 113 is busy making a new planet as seen in this new image from the Very Large Telescope. For centuries, astronomers have tried to study the process of planetary formation. Thanks to ...

Identifying the formation period of planetary systems, such as our solar system, could be the beginning of the journey to ...

Astronomers say this small gas giant fits perfectly in a gap in its star’s disk, confirming how young planets shape their ...

Webb has directly imaged a young gas giant planet roughly the size of Saturn, our solar system's second-largest planet ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered its first exoplanet, astronomers said Wednesday, capturing rare direct images of the relatively small world in the Earth's galactic backyard.