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 ...

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 ...

Solar system formation got its most precise explanation yet: a new Max Planck study traces all six carbonaceous chondrite ...

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 ...

An international group of astronomers has found a new ring system around a dwarf planet hailing from the edge of our Solar System. This discovery challenges current theories on the formation of ring ...

Where did meteorites come from and what can explain their diversity? This is what a recent study published in The ...

Artist impression of the rings around Quaoar, a small body in the solar system about half the size of Pluto. After the news in January of the James Webb Space Telescope spying rings around Chariklo—a ...

Astronomers from the University of Sheffield have found a new ring system in our Solar System The rings are around Quaoar, which is a Pluto-sized dwarf planet orbiting beyond Neptune Quaoar’s rings ...