A rippling detected within the rings around Saturn has helped scientists determine that the giant planet may be “fuzzy” at its core. The findings also sugget that Saturn’s core is much ...

The researchers were able to determine both the composition and the size of the core — which stretches across 60% of the planet’s diameter — by looking at the rings.

Scientists say that Saturn's rings are falling in on the planet as icy rain due to the gas giant's intense gravity. Saturn's rings are made of pieces of comets, asteroids or moons.

The asteroid Chariklo is surrounded by two rings similar to those around the brilliant planet Saturn. See images and artist views of the asteroid's strange rings in this Space.com gallery.

Big Number. 4,100. That’s how many kilometers Quaoar’s rings are from the dwarf planet’s core. That puts its rings at a distance of roughly 7.4 of the dwarf planet’s radii from its core ...

Astronomers have found a ring of particles surrounding a small, distant space rock at the edge of our Solar System. The ring encircles a strange world called Haumea, a dwarf planet that’s shaped ...

The European Space Agency’s CHEOPS telescope usually searches for planets outside our solar system, but recently it made a discovery closer to home: a large ring around the dwarf planet Quaoar ...

It is the first time rings have been found around such a small object. Astronomers have discovered a pair of thin rings encircling 10199 Chariklo, a rock-and-ice asteroid-comet hybrid known as a ...

Noted philosopher Beyoncé once said, "If you liked it, then you should've put a ring on it." We're back out in space for this week's Moment of Science, discovering how we get rings around some ...

Past the orbit of Neptune, in the most remote part of our solar system, there lurks a dwarf planet. No, not Pluto; we're talking about the dwarf planet Haumea.Discovered in 2004, Haumea lies a few ...