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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A nearby star system is helping astronomers unravel the mystery of ... and the comets also created from those same clouds swirling around newborn stars. “V883 Orionis is the missing link in ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...