TEHRAN (ANA)- A Lancaster University PhD student has measured the optical depth of Saturn’s rings using a new method based on how much sunlight reached the Cassini spacecraft while it was in the shadow of the rings.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Are Saturn's rings really vanishing by 2025? Jonti Horner, Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland, reveals the truth.

TEHRAN (ANA)- The presence of an infrared aurora on the cold, outer planet of Uranus has been confirmed for the first time by University of Leicester astronomers.

TEHRAN (ANA)- A team of planetary scientists from the University of Leicester has found that Saturn’s late northern summer is experiencing a cooling trend, as huge planetary-scale flows of air have reversed direction as autumn approaches.

TEHRAN (ANA)- New research offers a theory on how gold, platinum, and other precious metals found their way to shallow pockets within Earth’s mantle and scientists at Yale and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) say they’ve hit the jackpot with some valuable new information about the story of gold.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope just made a breakthrough discovery in revealing how planets are made.

TEHRAN (ANA)- Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science have discovered a unique binary system 1,400 light years away that consists of a hot Jupiter-like object orbiting a white dwarf, offering unparalleled insights into the study of hot Jupiters and the evolution of stars in binary systems.

TEHRAN (ANA)- New research by the Southwest Research Institute suggests that the Moon’s shadowed regions are about 3.4 billion years old and may have young water ice deposits.

TEHRAN (ANA)- With new data from the BepiColombo probe (illustrated), scientists at the University of Pisa have shown that electrons rain down on the surface of Mercury, causing its X-ray auroras.

TEHRAN (ANA)- NASA has completed the final major test to prepare for the arrival of the first US asteroid sample - slated to land on Earth in September, according to the agency.