While the idea of Earth having a ring is new, planetary rings are not uncommon in the solar system. Saturn’s rings are the ...

The rings of Saturn are among the most famous and spectacular features in the solar system. Earth may once have had something ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

one of the building blocks of the solar system, but it’s also known as a minor planet. Either way, it’s the smallest known planetary body to have rings. About 146 miles/235 km in diameter—so ...

NARRATOR: On Earth, these are usually found as a liquid ... VERBISCER: It is the largest ring by far in the Solar System. This ring is so big that a billion Earths could fit inside the volume ...

From meteorites that impact Earth, to a moon that orbits backwards ... and it's not bad to have another ring planet in our solar system. NARRATOR: It seems Mars will one day be transformed ...

There are eight planets in our solar system. The closest one ... while a year is about 29 Earth years. Uranus has at least 27 moons, 13 rings and spins on its side like a ball rolling along ...

Further contraction would detach a series of rings. These were ... was probably formed from the earth by solar tidal disruption, this method being abnormal in the system, and the later evolution ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

All life on Earth is based on the element carbon, but scientists aren’t sure what initially supplied all that carbon to our ...