An extrasolar planetary ring system discovered in 2012 has now been determined to be much more massive than the one orbiting Saturn. Michelle Starr Science editor Michelle Starr is CNET's science ...

Look at this picture of Saturn. Can you see the biggest ring? Are you sure? Saturn’s rings have always had something of an air of mystery—but astronomers had at least been fairly confident in their ...

Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun, is a most amazing world! This planet exhibits one of the most amazing structures in the entire solar system, a true well developed ring system, which has been ...

When it was discovered in 2009, scientists knew the newest ring around Saturn was big. Now, they can say just how large. It's the biggest in the solar system. In a study Wednesday in Nature, ...

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The Phoebe ring takes up as much space as about 7,000 Saturns, most of it pieces of dust smaller than the width of a human hair. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family ...

Saturn is famous for its lovely rings, but this gas giant has another ring that people normally don't see — and some new observations with an infrared telescope show that this mysterious ring is even ...

A Saturn-size gas giant exoplanet orbiting close to its star has three times as much water in its atmosphere as Saturn itself, researchers have found. The surprising find will improve our ...

You can see the rings of Saturn in any telescope – even a small telescope for beginners. But the views you get will vastly differ depending on what telescope you have. If you want to get the very best ...

Observations of a distant red dwarf star indicate that it is surrounded by not one but two massive rings of gas and dust, with tantalizing hints that it is orbited by a Saturn-size planet. The red ...