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 ...

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 ...

leaving them wondering how it remains stable Astronomers have spotted a ring around a dwarf planet called Quaoar in the outer reaches of the solar system. The observations, by a powerful telescope ...

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 ...

Feb. 8 (UPI) --Astronomers have discovered a ring around a dwarf planet called Quaoar in the outer reaches of the solar system. The ring was found at seven and a half times the radius of Quaoar ...

Notably, the rings orbit much further away from Quaoar than Saturn's rings revolve around it, a fact that may lead to the formulation of new theories about ring formation. As Quaoar's rings are ...

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.

A new occupational hazard for astronomers just dropped — and it's all because the James Webb Space Telescope is, perhaps, a little too good at its job. "It was more than we expected," Webb ...

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 ...