Uncover the mystery behind Saturn’s iconic rings. ExtremeTech explains their origins and the science of our solar system.

The team's hypothesis calls for a temporary ring around Earth, which would explain why impacts were constrained to a ...

As energy from the sun reaches Earth, some solar radiation is absorbed by the atmosphere, leading to chemical reactions like the formation of ozone and the breakup of gas molecules. A new approach for ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature ...

Even JWST can’t separate these tiny planets from their host stars – as they orbit their stars too closely. But there is a way ...

The sun's solar weather has caused several atmospheric events since the star entered its maximum phase. See the sun's effect.

The planet Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. There’s nothing to walk ...

Jupiter is now well up in the east in the early evening, so we're now able to see the two brightest planets (Venus and ...

Those rings are rock and ice that span thousands of kilometers around the planet. They are the hallmark of Saturn, but ring systems exist ... Earth's climate cooled but carbon dioxide stayed high in ...

Saturn will undergo a drastic change in the coming months, at least as the planet is seen from Earth. Here's what's going to ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have detected possible signs of gases released by volcanic activity on a ...