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 ...

A newly discovered alien planet's ring system puts Saturn's collection to shame. The exoplanet, called J1407b, could even harbor at least one Earth or Mars-sized moon, judging by a large gap in the ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) 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 ...