After our team discovered Pluto’s small moons, we realized impacts on them might generate ejecta that gets into orbit around Pluto, creating rings around the planet. Rings have so far been discovered ...

Pluto has no rings — New Horizons triple-checked. An exhaustive search for rings and dust particles around the dwarf planet before, during and after the spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015 has come up ...

The moons of Pluto, and a potential set of rings, may create dangerous debris zones for a NASA spacecraft currently speeding toward the distant world, researchers say. Scientists are now designing ...

Faint, icy rings may periodically appear around Pluto when small space rocks smash into its two recently discovered moons, new research suggests. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, currently en route to ...

The moons of Pluto, and a potential set of rings, may create dangerous debris zones for a NASA spacecraft currently speeding toward the distant world, researchers say. Scientists are now designing ...