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 ...

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 ...

(CNN) — In 1610, after he built his telescope, Galileo Galilei first spotted enormous Saturn’s gigantic rings. More than 400 years later, astronomers have in a sense dwarfed that discovery with a ...

An artist's rendering of J1407b passing in front of its parent star. (Credit: Ron Miller) A newly discovered planet makes Saturn’s famed ring collection look downright tiny by comparison. Astronomers ...

Astronomers have discovered that the ring system that they see eclipse the very young Sun-like star J1407 is of enormous proportions, much larger and heavier than the ring system of Saturn.

J1407B, a "Super Saturn," has a ring system 200 times larger than Saturn's. Ron Miller Imagine if Saturn had rings that stretched for tens of millions of miles through the solar system. The rings ...

More than 400 light years from Earth, a mysterious world with an enormous ring system is making Saturn look tiny. Far larger than Jupiter, its huge rings extend about 200 times further than our own ...

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 ...