Saturn’s bright rings are one of the most recognizable sights in the Solar System. Yet new analyses of data from NASA’s Cassini mission suggest they may be far younger than many people assume. That ...

Astronomers at the Leiden Observatory and the University of Rochester have discovered that the ring system that they see eclipse the very young Sun-like star J1407 is of enormous proportions, much ...

For decades, astronomers have been awed by Saturn’s ring beauty. But a tiny, icy wanderer drifting between Saturn and Uranus has now stolen a little of that spotlight. A new paper released in The ...

The smallest rings in the solar system, belonging to the centaur Chariklo, may be perturbed by a moon that's yet to be discovered. Reading time 2 minutes A previously unknown satellite may be shaping ...

Researchers observing a background star pass behind Quaoar, a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, found that the distant object has a ring system unlike any previously found in our solar system. The team ...

Scientists have discovered a new ring system around a dwarf planet on the edge of the Solar System. The ring system orbits much further out than is typical for other ring systems, calling into ...