In three months, Saturn's iconic, icy rings will appear to disappear, giving you a preview of what the planet could look like 100 million to 300 million years from now. On March 23, an optical ...

Move over Saturn! Scientists have found a ring around an unassuming mini-planet in our Solar System to debunk the theory that only giant planets can be so adorned. The planet, dubbed Haumea ...

On this date, Jan. 24, 1986, Voyager 2 began beaming images from Uranus, giving scientists unprecedented data and insights ...

It's hard to imagine Saturn without its glorious, extensive, complicated rings. Yet, when the Cassini probe arrived to study the planet in 2004, it made a curious discovery: the ice chunks and ...

The Ring of Fire is also where an estimated 75% of the planet’s volcanoes are located, such as Mount Tambora of Indonesia, which erupted in 1815 and became the largest volcanic eruption in ...

A city in China wants to launch an artificial moon into ... And what didn't hit the planet would instead be trapped by Earth's gravity. Forming a ring of debris around the equator.

Second ring found around dwarf planet Quaoar by Bob Yirka , Phys.org Representation of our results on Quaoar's shape (center) and the detection of the two rings Q1R (outer ring) and Q2R (inner ring).