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

AN international team of astronomers led by the University of Galway has discovered the likely site of a new planet in ...

The likely site of a new “gas giant planet” up to several times the mass of Jupiter, has been discovered by an international ...

But it's not the only planet in the solar system with these breathtaking bands. So which planets in our solar system have rings? All four giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune ...

The star-tracker camera aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured this view of Jupiter's faint rings on Aug. 27, 2016, during the probe's first data-gathering close approach to the giant planet.

"Saturn's are mostly ice, Jupiter's are mostly dust, and Uranus' and Neptune's are made of both." Dust rings appear much fainter than ice rings, making them harder for us to see. What a planet's ...

The astronomers now hope to be able to take an actual image of the young planet using the sensitivity of JWST.

An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Galway, has discovered the likely site of a new planet in formation, most likely a gas giant planet up to a few times the mass of Jupiter ...

The Juno mission has been studying the Jovian system—Jupiter, along with its rings and many moons—to learn about the giant planet’s formation and evolution with the hope that it might shed ...

An international team of astronomers led by University of Galway scientists has discovered the probable site of a new planet ...

It is the sixth planet from the sun and the second-largest planet in the solar system, after Jupiter. Saturn's beautiful rings are made of icy bits of rock and dust. Scientists think the rings ...

During that variation, the planet's rings are edge-on to ... Saturn's neighboring planets, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, all have rings, says the University of California, Riverside.