The fluffy ring is made up of cumulus clouds that have been sculpted into a Rayleigh-Benard convection cell — a meteorological phenomenon powered by the rising and falling of air that's been ...

The pair of stars orbit in a ring structure ... were not collected to seek such a planet, or orbital configuration. As such, it is a big surprise.” The researchers were able to work out that ...

Astronomers have found a planet that orbits at an angle of 90 degrees around a rare pair of peculiar stars. This is the first time we have strong evidence for one of these 'polar planets' orbiting a ...

The Ring of Fire is also where an estimated 75% of the planet’s volcanoes are located, such as Mount Tambora of Indonesia, which erupted in 1815 and became the largest volcanic eruption in ...

Space telescopes such as Hubble can still see Saturn's rings during a ring plane crossing — but only as a thin line across the planet. For backyard stargazers, the rings have been shrinking from ...