Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...

But later – hundreds of millions of years in the future – a permanent, virtually ringless Saturn will become real, thanks to another process called ring rain in which gravity pulls the rings apart and ...

Tiny micrometeoroids, less than 100 microns in size, are zipping around Saturn, accelerated by Saturn's powerful gravitational pull. Meanwhile, the ice chunks that make up the rings can be quite a ...

but they believe the rings could be as old as the planet, which is around 4.5 billion years old. The assumption that Saturn's rings were relatively young stemmed from the lack of dust that would ...

After graduating from UVA in 2013 and completing her doctorate in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 2019, ...

Both Venus and Saturn will be in the Aquarius constellation, the water bearer, during their close approach. To help spot it, ...

Saturn is perhaps the best-known example ... isolated moons could have stable rings around them. But that study didn't consider the gravitational effects of other moons and planets.

However, warns the space agency, Saturn's rings are currently edge-on to the Earth. That’s because, like Earth, its spin axis is tilted with respect to its orbit around the sun, so the ...

New Study Puts a Definitive Age on Saturn's Rings -- They're Really Young May 12, 2023 — Physicists measured the flux of interplanetary dust around Saturn. The researchers concluded that the ...

Venus and Saturn will be in conjunction this weekend, appearing side by side in the night sky during January's post-sunset ...

Saturn's rings, once thought young, might be as old as the planet itself, around 4.5 billion years. New research using Cassini data suggests micrometeoroid impacts vaporize, keeping the rings ...

Beautiful photos of the six planets aligned in the night sky have emerged online. Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, Venus and ...