When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Alien planets may be forming inside a giant gas ring located surprisingly far from its young ...

The perfect circle surrounding a galaxy cluster in a new Hubble Space Telescope image is a visual indicator of the huge masses that are bending time and space in that region. The galaxy cluster, ...

When we look into the sky and see a single Sun, many don't realize that our solar system is unique in its arrangement. Typically, stars that look like our Sun are born with siblings. In the solar ...

Saturn isn't the only planet in our solar system with a ring system. While Saturn's rings are the most dramatic, the three other gas giants — Jupiter, Neptune, and Uranus — each have a ring system as ...

The dust and gas around the star HD142527 observed by ALMA are shown in red and green, respectively, while near-infrared observations taken by the NAOJ Subaru Telescope are shown in blue. The dust is ...