What is the rings around the planets made of?

Answer 1

Saturn's rings probably formed when objects like comets, asteroids or even moons broke up in orbit around Saturn due to Saturn's very strong gravity.
The rocks that created the rings used to be stuck together and was one planet but it became too close to Saturn and saturns gravity distroyed the planet and caused those rings. The gravity of the rock cause the to try and stick together and become one planet again but saturns gravity causes them to split apart again
While the planets were getting into place when the solar system formed, the asteroids that were supposed to be in the asteroid belt when Saturn's gravitational pull tugged them into an orbit.
Astronomers believe that hundreds of years ago, two of Saturn's moons crashed. The moons smashed into millions of pieces.The pieces of the moon are orbiting Saturn forming the rings.

Answer 2

Basically, rings contain matter which is trapped in orbit by a planet's gravity. Saturn's rings are made up of individual chunks of ice, rocks, and dust. When the Voyager space probe flew by Saturn in the early 1980s, it discovered that the rings are an intricate system made up of thousands of thin gaps and ringlets. The rings around Jupiter are very faint. They are composed of smoke-like dust that came off of Jupiter's moons when they were impacted by meteors. The impacts were really hard because of the Jupiter's strong gravitational pull, and they created a lot of dust. They are similar to rings around other planets. Some planets don't have rings (like Earth) because they don't have the same types of debris orbiting them (dust, particles, rocks, ice, etc).

Answer 3

Dust, small rocks, larger rocks and ice. Loads of small pieces in an orbit around the planet.

Answer 4

only the gas giants have rings

Answer 5

Ice and rocks