I n a surprising twist on our planet’s ancient history, scientists are now suggesting that Earth might once have had a ring ...

Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the ...

Feb. 8, 2023 — 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 ...

The so-called 'planetesimal belts' are filled with tiny millimeter-sized particles created by collisions between comets.

SATURN’S iconic rings are set to disappear in weeks, and won’t come back into full view until 2032 The vanishing act is all ...

But later – hundreds of millions of years in the future – a permanent, virtually ringless Saturn will become real, thanks to another process called ring rain in which gravity pulls the rings apart and ...

Like Saturn, Earth may have also had its ring system circling the planet 466 million years ago ... a satellite-based communication network around Mars, to support interplanetary data exchange ...

It seems likely that, outside the Solar System, rings could be common ... between asteroids or baby planets that created clouds of debris that spooled around Saturn and became its rings.