J1047b has 37 rings, with a total radius of the rings reaching 55 million miles. To put that in perspective, the distance from the Earth to the Sun is 92 million miles. J1407b is between 10 and 40 ...

The main rings, working out from the planet, are known as C, B and A. The innermost is the extremely faint D ring, while the outermost to date, revealed in 2009, is so big that it could fit a ...

There’s a Ring Around This Dwarf Planet. It Shouldn’t Be There. Quaoar, which orbits the sun in the distant Kuiper belt, is the latest small object shown to have a ring like the ones around ...

Liu simulated how a giant planet and its ring system might form and evolve around a star like V1400 ... a massive object too big to be a mere gas planet, but not quite big enough to be a star.

Pieces of the rings range in size from tiny particles of dust to huge, mountain-size rocks. Saturn's rings extend up to 175,000 miles (282,000 km) from the planet.

A new analysis of data captured by NASA’s Cassini mission, which orbited the gas giant planet between 2004 and 2017, has revealed new insights into how long the rings have been around and when ...

Saturn’s rings are slowly disappearing. The rings will vanish in a few hundred million years as icy material from them rains down on the planet, scientists predict.

Astronomers had long assumed that Saturn's distinctive rings formed around the same time as the planet some 4.5 billion years ago in the earliest days of our Solar System. That assumption received ...

Jupiter is more than twice as massive as all the other planets combined, according to NASA. ... It’s the first-ever view of the planet's rings from inside of them.