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After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to ...
Does Jupiter have rings? How about Uranus? Here's everything you need to know about which planets have rings.
Distant dwarf planet Quaoar shouldn’t have a ring, but it does Something put a ring around a tiny world orbiting beyond Neptune. By Jon Kelvey Published Feb 9, 2023 5:00 PM EST ...
Star RIK 113 is busy making a new planet in its protoplanetary disk as seen in this new image from the Very Large Telescope.
Instead of a tempest in a teapot, imagine the cosmos in a canister. Scientists have performed experiments using nested, ...
Beyond our solar system, there’s a whole selection of planets unlike anything we see around the Sun. In the cosmic candy shop, there are Ring Pops (less magnificent versions of Saturn), Hot ...
Recent telescope data revealed that a small planet in the far reaches of our solar system has a dense ring round it, and scientists are baffled as to why.
Our solar system may have a ninth planet after all, following the declassification of Pluto nearly two decades ago, researchers say.
Saturn's rings are long thought to be up to 400 million years old but new data finds they could be around 4.5 billion years old.
None of the rocky planets in our Solar System — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars — have rings. Can you picture Earth with a ring system, though? Think of what ...