A planet’s moons can also influence its ring system. For example, Jupiter has rings just like the other gas giants, but its rings are smaller and fainter than Saturn's.

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Recent telescope data revealed that a small planet in the far reaches of our solar system has a dense ring round it, and scientists are baffled as to why. CNN values your feedback 1.

Saturn has at least 146 moons, of which 63 are named—and thousands of moonlets are hiding inside its rings. Four of our planets have rings, but Saturn's are enormous and complex, in a class of ...

For a very long time, Saturn was thought to be the only planet in our solar system with rings. The rings around Saturn were discovered by an astronomer called Galileo Galilei nearly 400 years ago ...

This Potentially Rogue Planet Might Have Rings That Rotate Backwards — And That’s Not the Weird Part. Simulations show how a giant gas planet could end up with backwards rings and moons.

Back when the Earth was crawling with trilobites and other strange shelled creatures, our planet may have had a ring just like Saturn's.. This ancient ring system is thought to have formed about ...

Saturn sports some of the coolest bling of any planet in our solar system. Its nine rings, which are mainly comprised of dust, rock and ice, have been the subject of scientific research for years.

New research has cast doubt on the long-held belief that Saturn's rings are relatively young, suggesting instead that they could date back 4.5 billion years to when the planet formed.

Recent telescope data revealed that a small planet in the far reaches of our solar system has a dense ring round it, and scientists are baffled as to why. CNN values your feedback 1.