According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

The rings of Saturn will temporarily “disappear” this weekend, though most stargazers will be unlikely to see it. The rings ...

Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...

This means that as the planets travel around the Sun ... Galileo also inadvertently saw the first ring plane crossing. In 1612, two years after his first observations of Saturn, he noticed ...

If you were to look at Saturn through a teelescope today, you’d be forgiven for being disapopinted: the rings that define the ...

This week, researchers reported on nine rivers and lakes in the Americas that defy hydrologic expectations. Geologists report ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

The fluffy ring is made up of cumulus ... known as convection. There are two types of cloud cells: closed cells, which occur when cold air sinks around the cells' border, causing clouds to form ...

Using advanced simulations, the researchers propose that these planets emerge from distinct rings ... around 1.8 times the size of Earth. Instead, exoplanets tend to cluster into two size groups ...

By comparison, Mercury, and Venus are moonless, Earth has one moon, and Mars has two. Uranus and Neptune have 28 and 16 known moons, respectively. Despite not technically being a planet anymore ...