The idea of colonizing gas giants like Neptune and Uranus is often overlooked, with most of the focus on their moons like Triton. But what if the planets themselves, specifically Neptune, could become ...

The moons that are interior to Iapetus — and there are 23 of them — all orbit in the same plane as one another, which is the same plane as Saturn’s rotation and its impressive ring system.

Astronomers have made an unexpected discovery about Haumea, a mysterious dwarf planet on the edge of our solar system. It has a ring around it. Until now, such rings had only been found around the ...

The image gives astronomers their best look at Neptune 's icy rings for 32 years, since the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past the planet on its way out of the solar system. "It has been three decades ...

The Webb telescope also captured seven of the 14 known moons in the Neptune system. Most prominent in this image is Triton, above Neptune, with bright diffraction spikes.

If it's news to you that Neptune even has rings, we don't blame you. They're quite close to its atmosphere, and thus are easily obscured by the gas giant's brightness — in fact, this is the ...

The ring system is around a dwarf planet, named Quaoar, which is approximately half the size of Pluto and orbits the Sun beyond Neptune. The discovery, published in Nature, was made by an ...

New photos of Neptune and rings captured by Webb Telescope by: The Associated Press via Nexstar Media Wire Posted: Sep 22, 2022 / 07:49 AM PDT Updated: Sep 22, 2022 / 08:55 AM PDT ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Neptune and its rings haven’t looked this good in decades. NASA released new glamour shots of our solar system’s outermost planet Wednesday taken by the James Webb ...

Rings have formed in the solar system around massive planets like Saturn and Uranus, but also dwarf planets, and at distances from the planet previously thought to be impossible.