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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of astronomers has used some of the most powerful ... There are plenty of those drifting around in our corner of the universe, including several orbiting the Milky Way.

A new occupational hazard for astronomers just dropped — and it's all because the James Webb Space Telescope is, perhaps, a little too good at its job. "It was more than we expected," Webb ...

Astronomers have detected a small ... Eventually that rotating gas flattens into a disk and planets begin forming around a central core. While we have a very good understanding of the general ...

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 ...

(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 ...