The science behind piston rings is far more impressive than you could ever imagine. The New Mind YouTube channel put together a detailed history and explainer on the piston ring, ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature could explain a climate shift at the time.

Wait, the ring is where? So far, everything about this seems pretty normal. Things got weird, however, when the researchers looked into how distant the ring was from the dwarf planet: 7.4 times ...

The ring in question orbits Quaoar, a small dwarf planet that lies more than 4 billion miles from the sun—roughly 44 times the distance between Earth and our star.

The ring surrounds Quaoar, which is around half the size of Pluto and located beyond Neptune.It is only the third ring to be found around a minor planet and the seventh ring system in the solar ...

Science Space Solar System The Ring Nebula is a glowing gas-filled donut in the latest JWST snap. The plenary nebula about 2,600 light-years away can be seen with backyard telescopes and boasts ...

Saturn’s iconic rings will seem to “disappear” for a couple of days starting this weekend — at least from our vantage point on Earth. The rings won’t actually vanish, but for a short ...

Earth may have had a ring made up of a broken asteroid over 400 million years ago, a study finds. The Saturn-like feature could explain a climate shift at the time.