In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

Astronomers just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

Imagery of Saturn captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is superimposed over an image captured by Hubble. "Yellows represent bright and warm parts of Saturn’s atmosphere, while the purple areas ...

Fourth anniversaries aren’t often causes for celebration. But in the case of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which ...

Scientists had stumbled on the dusty debris from two cosmic crashes. Massive space rocks slammed together to create clouds of ...

We have been exploring our solar system for over 80s years now, and we have learned so much. This week, we examine a Voyager 2 image of Triton, a Cassini image of Saturn with its moons, a panoramic ...

Enjoy a tour of the solar system, featuring Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus. Plus, a recent image from JWST features a complex planetary nebula caused by a dying star and possibly a second star. New ...

Astronomers are applying new image-processing techniques to previously released Hubble observations in honor of the space telescope's upcoming 35th anniversary. When you purchase through links on our ...

On Sunday afternoon, Saturn’s iconic rings vanished from our skies. Don’t worry—the planet’s rings are still intact. But from Earth’s vantage point, a temporary phenomenon called a “ring plane ...