Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Saturn's rings have disappeared from view, as seen from Earth, due to a phenomenon known as a ring plane crossing. A ring plane ...

This series of images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows how the ring system around the distant planet Uranus appears at ever more oblique (shallower) tilts as viewed from Earth – culminating in ...

Astronomers have discovered an entirely new ring system within the solar system, and it's located at such a great distance from its dwarf planet parent that it should be impossible. The ring surrounds ...

Berkeley — As the rings of Uranus swing edge-on to Earth – a short-lived view we get only once every 42 years – astronomers observing the event are getting an unprecedented, glare-free view of the ...