SYFY WIRE Explore The LatestMoviesTVGamesComicsInterviews All Posts Tagged Rings Dwarf planet Quaoar has a ring system that defies our understanding of gravity The ring is further away from the planet than gravity should allow. By Cassidy Ward | 1 month ago Why doesn’t Jupiter have even more spectacular rings than Saturn? Jupiter is bigger and more massive, but Saturn puts it to shame. By Phil Plait | 7 months ago Dwarf planets can have rings, too, if they're lumpy or oblate By Phil Plait | 1 year ago The warm glow of rings around Uranus By Phil Plait | 3 years ago A weird, distant potato-shaped world gets weirder: Haumea has rings! By Phil Plait | 5 years ago
Dwarf planet Quaoar has a ring system that defies our understanding of gravity The ring is further away from the planet than gravity should allow. By Cassidy Ward | 1 month ago
Why doesn’t Jupiter have even more spectacular rings than Saturn? Jupiter is bigger and more massive, but Saturn puts it to shame. By Phil Plait | 7 months ago
