WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The small distant world called Quaoar, named after a god of creation in Native American mythology, is producing some surprises for astronomers as it orbits beyond ...

While an object the size of Spain drifts through the distant Solar System, astronomers watch it ... but it doesn’t justify the ring around Quaoar. “If you have a satellite that goes inside ...

Astronomers discovered that dwarf planet Quaoar, which resides in the outer solar system, sports a strange ring around it. And according to researchers, this lumpy ring of material is so far from ...

An artist's impression of how Quaoar and its ring might look like Astronomers are puzzled after spotting a rare ring around a mini-planet in our Solar System. The newly discovered dwarf planet ...

According to the astronomers, what makes the ring system around Quaoar remarkable is that it lies at a distance of over seven planetary radii - twice as far out as what was previously thought to ...

Quaoar, which orbits the sun in the distant Kuiper belt, is the latest small object shown to have a ring like the ones around Saturn ... working even better than astronomers had dared to hope.

Modern astronomers digitally image the night sky. Digital cameras are of course optimized around the human visual system (as we recently discussed) making them less than ideal for astrophotography.

Astronomers have detected a small ... Eventually that rotating gas flattens into a disk and planets begin forming around a central core. While we have a very good understanding of the general ...

Researchers said on Wednesday they have detected a ring encircling Quaoar akin to the one around the planet Saturn. But the one around Quaoar defies the current understanding of where such rings ...