Once upon a time, Earth may have sported a planetary ring of its very own. The hypothetical ring didn't last long, cosmically ...

Led by Monash University’s School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, the study was published Tuesday in the journal Earth ...

An extrasolar planetary ring system discovered in 2012 has now been determined to be much more massive than the one orbiting Saturn. Michelle Starr Science editor Michelle Starr is CNET's science ...

Saturn's rings were discovered as soon as the first telescope was invented, but the other rings weren't found until 1977 (Uranus), 1979 (Jupiter) and 1984 (Neptune).

S. Charnoz, R. M. Canup, A. Crida, L. Dones(Submitted on 28 Mar 2017) This chapter of the book Planetary Ring Systems addresses the origin of planetary rings, one of the […] ...

Nestled inside a planetary ring 110 light-years from Earth, a planet spotted by the James Webb telescope is the lightest ...

Planetary rings are disks containing many small chunks of ice and other materials that are in orbit around a larger object 1. Most rings are found within a critical distance of their host, known ...

An artist's view of the rings surrounding the asteroid Chariklo, which is only 155 miles (250 kilometers) across. The asteroid is the first non-planetary body in the solar system discovered to ...

David Minton, assistant professor of Earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences, and Andrew Hesselbrock, a doctoral student in physics and astronomy, developed a model that suggests that debris that ...

In 2013, astronomers discovered a couple of rings around Chariklo, a body known as a centaur that orbits the sun between Saturn and Uranus.In 2017, a ring was discovered around another Kuiper belt ...