Uranus was always seen as a tilted, distant, and kind of boring world. Scientists used to think it was a planetary dud, a ...

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Astronomers have likely witnessed a planet forming in real time, seen inside a spiral arm of the HD 135344B protoplanetary ...

A hidden planet up to 10 times the size of Jupiter was found in the disc around MP Mus, thanks to new data from ALMA and Gaia ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining ...

Astronomers may have caught a still-forming planet in action, carving out an intricate pattern in the gas and dust that ...

Saturn's rings extend up to 175,000 miles (282,000 km) from the planet. However, they are very thin: The main rings have a height of only 30 feet (10 m), on average, according to NASA.

Ripples in the rings of our solar system's gas giants are the leftovers of cometary impacts that may have happened decades earlier. Read the whole story. Log in Register. Search ...

"Iron Winds and Metal Rain." Not the title of a heavy metal album but an accurate weather prediction for a hellish exoplanet called WASP-76b.