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 ...

leaving them wondering how it remains stable Astronomers have spotted a ring around a dwarf planet called Quaoar in the outer reaches of the solar system. The observations, by a powerful telescope ...

An artist's impression of how Quaoar and its ring might look like Astronomers are puzzled after spotting a rare ring around a mini-planet in our Solar System. The newly discovered dwarf planet ...

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 ...

Feb. 8 (UPI) --Astronomers have discovered a ring around a dwarf planet called Quaoar in the outer reaches of the solar system. The ring was found at seven and a half times the radius of Quaoar ...

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 in ...

There are thousands of them that we know of, and probably hundreds of thousands bigger than 62 miles (100 km) across, waiting to be discovered and measured by astronomers. Each one of them is a ...

Quaoar, which orbits the sun in the distant Kuiper belt, is the latest small object shown to have a ring like the ones around Saturn ... working even better than astronomers had dared to hope.

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 ...