Jovian planets are gas planets without solid surfaces. Some larger gas giants form planetary rings around them, while others are too small or do not have enough local matter to pull into a ring ...

Dust rings appear much fainter than ice rings, making them harder for us to see. ... Instead, it is gathered into an orbit around the planet, making a ring. Alternatively, ...

Rings have formed in the solar system around massive planets like Saturn and Uranus, but also dwarf planets, and at distances from the planet previously thought to be impossible.

Just on the outskirts of our solar system exists the dwarf planet Quaoar, and recent observations of the planet found a dense ring around it, but scientists can't figure how – or why – it's there.

For a very long time, Saturn was thought to be the only planet in our solar system with rings. The rings around Saturn were discovered by an astronomer called Galileo Galilei nearly 400 years ago ...

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the first confirmed discovery in the 1990s, more than 5,000 have been ...

Enormous rings may have graced many of the planets in the early solar system, giving rise to the moons that circle them today, scientists say. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience ...

Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...

The ring in question orbits Quaoar, a small dwarf planet that lies more than 4 billion miles from the sun—roughly 44 times the distance between Earth and our star.

New telescope data has revealed that a dwarf planet in the outer reaches of the solar system has a dense ring around it, leaving scientists and astronomers confused as to why. Scientists at the ...

Rings around planets like Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are well-studied and, for the most part, understood. But a dwarf planet boasting a ring of its own is definitely pretty weird, if only because ...