Three rings hinting at two planets With the breathtaking progress made in star and planet formation research aiming at far-away celestial objects, we can now investigate the conditions in ...

If the ring contains little mass, it produces a system that looks much more like our solar system's terrestrial planets. "I'm an observer and an instrument builder, but I pay extremely close ...

Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.

The rings are theorized to have formed 466 million years ago during one of the coldest periods in the planet's history ... a new layer of complexity to our understanding of how extra-terrestrial ...

Back when the Earth was crawling with trilobites and other strange shelled creatures, our planet may have had a ring just like Saturn's. This ancient ring system is thought to have formed about ...

As they pass through the rings around planets, these radio signals are affected in different ways by the particles in the ring, depending on the size of the particles and how heavy they are.