It's hard to imagine Saturn without its glorious, extensive, complicated rings. Yet, when the Cassini probe arrived to study the planet in 2004, it made a curious discovery: the ice chunks and ...

New NASA research confirms that Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum rate estimated from Voyager 1 & 2 observations made decades ago. The rings are being pulled into Saturn by gravity as a ...

Catching an unobstructed view of Saturn’s rings from our planet will become nearly impossible in the next couple of years. The iconic rings are set to disappear from view briefly in 2025 due to the ...

Planetary rings explained: composition, formation theories, and a comparison of Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune’s rings.

NASA Cassini spacecraft images of Saturn’s diaphanous G and E rings are yielding new clues about their structure and formation. A sequence of recent Cassini images, which has been made into a brief ...

The rings of Saturn could be much older than previously thought and may have formed around the same time as the planet, according to a modelling study. But not all astronomers are convinced, and a ...

During the final year of NASA's Cassini mission before it completed a "death dive" into Saturn's atmosphere in 2017, the spacecraft gathered as much data as possible about the planet's rings. During ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — New research suggests that Saturn’s rings may be older than they look — possibly as old as the planet. Instead of being a youthful 400 million years old as commonly thought ...

Saturn’s rings are one of the most recognisable sights in our solar system, but they won’t last forever. While a natural phenomenon makes them look like they’re gone thanks to an optical illusion that ...

Saturn’s iconic rings will seemingly vanish from view on Sunday, March 23. The gas giant’s rings have been gradually tilting edge-on, as seen from Earth, for the past seven years, and this weekend, ...

Ice particles from Saturn’s rings are falling into the planet’s atmosphere. In part because the particles vaporize, energy is released, heating up and making the sky glow at ultraviolet wavelengths, ...