When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Left to right: Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter show off their rings for various NASA spacecraft.

Data shows microscopic particles floating at distances 3 times the planet's radius, revealing a massive vertical scale to the ...

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. He ...

Planetary rings are one of the most striking sights in the solar system, yet not every planet has them. Saturn’s rings are the most famous, but other gas giants also have smaller and less visible ...

Can I run on the rings of planets? Asks Iola from New York. If you've ever looked out the window of a moving car and imagined yourself running along the rooftops that fly by, you might have had the ...