Astronomers photographed a baby planet, WISPIT 2b, during its formation process within a dusty ring around its star system.

The James Webb Telescope has captured an unusual dust pattern around two stars that can track the passage of time similar to ring patterns on the inside of tree trunks. The image, detailed by the ...

Research suggests that Saturn's rings don’t end where the eye expects - specks of ring material seem to float above and below ...

Astronomers studying a nearby star expected to find a planet. Instead, they caught two massive collisions in the Eye of ...

(CNN) -- A new image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope shows rings of dust plumes created by the violent interactions between two stars. The operations center for the telescope is in ...

Data shows microscopic particles floating at distances 3 times the planet's radius, revealing a massive vertical scale to the supposedly 'flat' rings.

A circumsolar dust ring has been recently discovered close to the orbit of Mercury. There are currently no hypotheses for the origin of this ring in the literature. So we explore four different origin ...

A young star’s strange elliptical ring of dust likely heralds the presence of an undiscovered Neptune-sized planet, says a University of Rochester astronomer in the latest Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

One lesson astronomers have learned from the avalanche of new-planet discoveries over the past decade and a half is that all solar systems are by no means created equal. One has five Neptune-size ...

Scientists have uncovered a new mystery about Uranus' rings buried deep in data from NASA's iconic Voyager 2 mission. Voyager 2 flew past Uranus in January 1986, discovering 10 moons and two rings ...

Just as dust gathers in corners and along bookshelves in our homes, dust piles up in space too. But when the dust settles in the solar system, it’s often in rings. Several dust rings circle the Sun.