Saturn’s icy rings are among the most iconic features in the solar system. But they are raining so much water onto the planet that in 300 million years they could rain themselves nearly out of ...

For generations, Saturn has been the unmistakable jewel of the night sky. Anyone with even a small telescope could identify it instantly because of its bright, majestic ring system. Yet on the night ...

Saturn’s rings are not the permanent fixture they appear to be through a backyard telescope. Planetary scientists now agree ...

Saturn’s rings might have formed while trilobites scuttled about on Earth. Space dust has been accumulating on the icy halos for no more than 400 million years, researchers report in the May 12 ...

Saturn stunned skywatchers on 23 November when its iconic rings seemed to vanish, leaving the planet looking strangely bare. Astronomers confirmed nothing was wrong. Earth had passed directly through ...

One of Cassini's last looks at Saturn and its main rings from a distance, produced by combining images taken in October 2016 NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute Saturn’s famous rings may be a ...

If you can get your hands on a telescope, there are few sights more spectacular than the magnificent ringed planet – Saturn. Currently, Saturn is clearly visible in the evening sky, at its highest ...

When we picture Saturn, we picture its rings. But those big, beautiful rings might not always be there. A trio of new studies show that the planet’s legendary adornments are gradually falling away, ...

Hello, lovelies, and welcome back to another installment of This Week in Space. Today, as part of our space news tasting menu, we're happy to bring you a few pieces of unalloyed good news on topics ...

Ask anyone who is interested and space and astronomy wise and there’s a good chance that they will tell you that it’s because they once looked through a telescope at Saturn’s rings. It’s a ...

New research has cast doubt on the long-held belief that Saturn's rings are relatively young, suggesting instead that they could date back 4.5 billion years to when the planet formed. The study, led ...

In November 2024 I was interviewed for a marvelous NPR podcast called Living On Earth about my latest popular science book, Under Alien Skies. While prepping for the show, one of the producers asked ...