Researchers said on Wednesday they have detected a ring encircling Quaoar akin to the one around the planet Saturn. But the one around Quaoar defies the current understanding of where such rings ...

Astronomers discovered that dwarf planet Quaoar, which resides in the outer solar system, sports a strange ring around it. And according to researchers, this lumpy ring of material is so far from ...

Together, the information from both telescopes helps to paint a complete picture of the metal-rich galaxy that astronomers believe is hiding behind the ring. A paper on the findings was published ...

(CNN)A nearby star system is helping astronomers unravel the mystery of ... and the comets also created from those same clouds swirling around newborn stars. "V883 Orionis is the missing link ...

Astronomers on Monday warned that the light ... That would reduce the number of stars the observatory is able to see by around 7.5 percent, study co-author John Barentine told AFP.

Recently, a team of astronomers led by Nikita Rawat of the Aryabhatta Research Institute of observational sciencES (ARIES) in India has investigated two CVs, namely: 1RXS J174320.1-042953 (or ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The small distant world called Quaoar, named after a god of creation in Native American mythology, is producing some surprises for astronomers as it orbits beyond ...

(CNN) — A nearby star system is helping astronomers unravel the mystery ... how a cloud of gas collapses to form a star with a disk around it. Then, the material creates a disk around the ...

Astronomers on Monday warned that the light ... That would reduce the number of stars the observatory is able to see by around 7.5 percent, study co-author John Barentine told AFP.