Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...

Saturn's famous rings are about to disappear ... act – trapping them between the pull of the planet's gravity and their own orbital velocity that wants to fling them into the void of space.

Move over Saturn! Scientists have found a ring around an unassuming mini-planet in our Solar System to debunk the theory that only giant planets can be so adorned. The planet, dubbed Haumea ...

having traveled another 29th of its orbital path around the sun. It’s a big moment for amateur astronomers with telescopes because an outer planet's annual opposition sees its entire disk ...

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Vol. 119, No. 859 (September 2007), pp. 986-993 (8 pages) ABSTRACT It is shown herein that planets with eccentric orbits are more likely to ...

Because of their distance from the sun and different rotational tilts relative to their orbital axes, the outer planets experience ... Hubble can capture the rings edge-on. In these views, the ...

These planets are typically characterized by their small size, proximity to their stars, and extremely short orbital periods. TOI-3261 b is one of only four known exoplanets in this category.