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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

J1407B is similar in mass to the sun, but is much younger. Astronomers believe it to be about 16 million years old or 1/300th the age of the solar system. It lies about 420 light years away. There are ...

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 ...

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, ...