Wednesday night’s online chatter among some High Desert residents included the question, “What’s up with the ring around the moon?” Some speculated that the ring was possibly a “portal to heaven,” ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the mystery of why no ringed moons exist today. When you purchase through links on ...

A note from Barb relates seeing a double ring around the recent full moon. While she says she has seen these rings before, she wonders why a double ring. The ring to which she refers is caused by a ...

Astronomers have discovered what they think may be another moon orbiting a distant dwarf planet called Quaoar. This small, icy, egg-shaped planet in the far reaches of our solar system, beyond Neptune ...

The 29th moon found to be orbiting the solar system’s 7th planet is about six miles wide. By Katrina Miller The space around Uranus just got a bit more crowded. On Tuesday, astronomers using the James ...

The rings of Saturn are among the wonders of our solar system, with a diameter of roughly 175,000 miles (280,000 kilometers) ...