Astronomers at Leiden Observatory in The Netherlands and the University of Rochester in New York have discovered that the planetary ring system that they see eclipse the young Sun-like star J1407 is ...

Astronomers say they have found the first ringed planet beyond our solar system, a super world with a girdle of halos 200 times bigger than Saturn's. Called J1407b, the giant has a disk of 30-odd ...

Saturn's ring system may be impressive but a giant exoplanet dubbed J1407b has rings so massive that they do not only dwarf those of Saturn's. They also blots out up to 95 percent of the light of its ...

There's a planet out there in the universe that has rings of matter surrounding it so large, they eclipse its nearby sun. This is J1407b, near the star J1407. The image you see here comes from Ron ...

Astronomers at the Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands, and the University of Rochester, USA, have discovered that the ring system that they see eclipse the very young Sun-like star J1407 is of ...

The giant planet J1407b has been a weird space mystery since its discovery in 2010. But a new study revealed something about the planet that may help explain at least part of its weirdness: a ...

Astronomers watching the repeated and drawn-out dimming of a relatively nearby Sun-like star have interpreted their observations to indicate an eclipse by a gigantic exoplanet’s complex ring system, ...