Saturn, the ringed wonder, achieved opposition this year on Aug. 14 at 17h02m Universal Time (UT). With its rings currently 14° open, now is the perfect time to target the solar system’s ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has sent back a brand-new image of giant gas planet Saturn and its incredible ring pattern. The new image, above, was take it on September 22, 2022, but only ...

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 now has at least 145 moons and probably possessed many before it developed rings. Scientists have argued that the immense gravity of the sun may have gradually destabilized some of the ...

Scientists say that Saturn's rings are falling in on the planet as icy rain due to the gas giant's intense gravity. Saturn's rings are made of pieces of comets, asteroids or moons.

While Saturn’s rings may seem timeless and eternal, they are actually relatively young in cosmic terms, with some experts estimating that they could be only 100 million years old.

Saturn today, as captured by the Cassini spacecraft in 2010. The planet’s distinctive rings are only about 100 million years old. Researchers propose that they formed when the planet’s largest moon, ...

This is where the rings came back into play. One possible explanation for their existence is the breakup of a moon that wandered too close to Saturn and was disrupted by the giant planet's gravity.

Swirling around the planet’s equator, the rings of Saturn are a dead giveaway that the planet is spinning at a tilt. The belted giant rotates at a 26.7-degree angle relative to the plane in which it ...

Saturn's rings are mostly made up of ice, asteroids, comets and moon fragments. In May 2025, the massive celestial loops will be effectively invisible to the human eye.

T he rings of Saturn could be much older than previously believed, possibly as old as the planet itself. In 2004, when NASA's Cassini probe arrived to study Saturn, it discovered that the ice ...