(NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI via AP) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Neptune and its rings haven’t looked this good in decades. NASA released new glamour shots of our solar system's outermost planet Wednesday ...

US-based space agency NASA has announced that its James Webb Space Telescope has captured the clearest view of Neptune 's rings in more than 30 years. Most striking in Webb's new image is the ...

Neptune lies in the frigid, dark, vast frontier of the outer edges of our solar system, about 3 billion miles away from the ...

Saturn’s iconic rings are dissolving due to “ring rain,” as icy particles spiral into the planet. Astronomers predict they ...

A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes — planets that are 1 to 4 times the size of ...

Jupiter's and Neptune's rings are mostly made up of those tiny dust particles. Urnaus's epsilon ring, however, only contains rocks at least the size of golf balls. "We already know that the ...

Such rings had been expected only around large planets such as Jupiter and Neptune. The astronomers had been watching a star as Chariklo passed in front of it, blocking the starlight as they had ...