This, actually, is weird. Of the eight planets in the Solar System, half have rings of dust and ice orbiting their equator. Mars is thought to have once had a ring. Some of the dwarf planets have ...

Planet Earth is the jewel of the solar system—the shimmery blue oceans, the verdant green forests, the wispy whimsical cloud formations. Saturn is the only competitor for mo ...

Our current view of Saturn means we're looking at the gas giant's famous rings edge on, making it impossible for telescopes on Earth to see them. This phenomenon is called a "ring plane crossing ...

Saturn’s apparent loss of its rings is due to the planets becoming perpendicular to each other, putting the rings directly on Earth’s plane. Saturn is tilled 26.73 degrees from vertical as it ...

Every object in our Solar System is held in place by the Sun ... rings which extend out about 280,000 km from the planet, the rings have an average thickness of only 10m. The rings are thought ...

A ring could not condense into a planet. According to the latest work ... All must, then, be regarded as having always been members of the solar system, however much their orbits may have changed.