Look west just after sunset from this weekend for a chance to see some of six planets, though the best views will be had ...

When you think of a planet with rings, majestic Saturn almost definitely comes to mind. But it's not the only planet in the solar system with these breathtaking bands. So which planets in our solar ...

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.

A rare astronomical event will display six planets in alignment, visible after sunset, giving skywatchers a spectacular ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you’re looking for a way to fill an evening this month with something wonderous, look no further than the night sky above your ...

An international team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) found a peculiar dust ring system around the young triple star GW Orionis. The system has three large ...

Saturn's icy rings, first observed in 1610, span 282,000 km and are 10-100m thick. Voyager 1 discovered Jupiter's faint, dusty rings in 1979, extending ~226,000 km. Voyager 2 found Neptune's 5 rings + ...

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope observation program called OPAL (Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy) obtains long-term baseline observations of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune in order to understand ...

This is a montage of Hubble Space Telescope views of our solar system's four giant outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, each shown in enhanced color. The images were taken over nearly ...