Figuring out the day length of Earth is more complicated than you might imagine. While on average a day is 24 hours long, ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Left to right: Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter show off their rings for various NASA spacecraft ...

All four giant planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — sport these spectacular structures. Plus, many other objects in the solar system, including the dwarf planet Haumea and asteroid ...

This gas giant has some really unique features that make it stand out. If you’re curious about space, learning a few things ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

Let's get lucky and let's get to listening. At long last, Jupiter, our gas-giant planet of good fortune, abundance, games of chance, and inclinations of excess, is going direct in Gemini.

Recent flybys of the fiery world refute a leading theory of its inner structure—and reveal how little is understood about ...

For the first time in its four-year operational history, the James Webb Space Telescope has identified an exoplanet not ...

Astronomers say this small gas giant fits perfectly in a gap in its star’s disk, confirming how young planets shape their ...

F rom the very beginning, JWST was shown to be a revolutionary instrument for the study of exoplanets, detecting intriguing ...

The Webb Telescope found two young planets forming sand clouds in the YSES‑1 system, revealing unprecedented details about ...