The number of known moons in our Solar System has been rising for centuries, but astronomers say it has probably peaked – for ...

Saturn’s rings are a celestial marvel that have long ... One example of this resonance phenomenon is Saturn’s moon Rhea, which orbits just beyond the range where such destabilization would ...

But of the nearly 300 moons found to date, not a single one is a ringed moon. This, actually, is weird. Of the eight planets in the Solar System, half have rings of dust and ice orbiting their ...

Astrophysicist Mario Sucerquia’s team simulated ring behavior on various moons, finding that many, including Earth’s moon and Jupiter’s Iapetus, could maintain stable rings for over a ...