Early risers will get a rare opportunity to see something extraordinary in the early hours of July 18 — the dark shadow of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, sweeping across the planet's cloud tops. Once ...

Never-before-seen “dark beads” and other unique structures were observed in the atmosphere above the north pole of Saturn — stumping astronomers who say the “unexplained” phenomenon has “no analog” in ...

Astronomers at the Leiden Observatory and the University of Rochester have discovered that the ring system that they see eclipse the very young Sun-like star J1407 is of enormous proportions, much ...

The rings around J1407b are so large that if they were put around Saturn, we could see the rings at dusk with our own eyes and camera phones. Here the rings as they would be seen in the skies of ...

Artist's conception of the extrasolar ring system circling the young giant planet or brown dwarf J1407b is shown. The rings are shown eclipsing the young sun-like star J1407, as they would have ...