"If giant planets in our Solar System have rings, and if centaurs (asteroids beyond Jupiter's orbit) and trans-Neptunian objects also have them, why don't moons in the Solar System have rings?" ...

If you thought planets only circled stars in neat, flat disks, think again. Scientists have uncovered compelling evidence for ...

Every object in our Solar System is held in place by the Sun ... rings which extend out about 280,000 km from the planet, the rings have an average thickness of only 10m. The rings are thought ...

The rings, believed to be made up of rocky and icy chunks that could be as large as a house, help separate Saturn from other planets in our solar system. They’re also about to perform a ...

"We can see, for the first time, rings of dust surrounding protoplanets made visible by the bright starlight reflecting off of them." ...

Our current ... As far as planets go, they don't get much more iconic than Saturn: a huge golden ball encircled by gigantic rings. There's nothing else quite like it in the Solar System.

giving the citizens of earth an update on what's been going on over at the solar system's sixth planet. The image above includes some impressive detail in the planet's iconic rings where there are ...

Ask almost anyone which planet has rings around it, and you’ll get the answer “Saturn”, especially if they’ve ever viewed it through a telescope. But not many people know that the other gas giants in ...

FARGO — The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has recognized 128 new moons in orbit around the planet Saturn, giving the ringed planet ... earlier in our solar system's history.

Its host star is surrounded by icy debris left over from planet formation, similar to our solar system’s Kuiper belt, the ring of icy objects observed around the Sun. Currie and team used the ...