Saturn's ring system consists in the main of countless icy particles a few centimetres to 10 metres or so in radius. Between these and the kilometre-size moonlets Pan and Daphnis, theorists ...

And Saturn's C ring hasn't been there long enough to gather much dust, say researchers from Cornell University. Dust on Saturn's icy rings can help scientists figure out how old the rings are.

Saturn’s icy rings are not just aesthetically wondrous marvels. One of them also records a beautiful planetary soundtrack. The planet’s interior, concealed beneath a shroud of mostly hydrogen ...

Saturn’s C ring is home to a surprisingly rich array of structures and textures. Much of the structure seen in the outer portions of Saturn’s rings is the result of gravitational perturbations on ring ...

As Saturn tore this hypothetical moon apart, rubble from the moon's core could have stayed lodged in the thick swath of the C-ring while the icy, watery mantle formed the bright A and B rings.

The discovery may solve the 30-year-old mystery of a gap in Saturn's faint, inner C ring. ... like this one in the C ring, are associated with no known moons, making the gaps' origins a mystery.

Saturn showed off a new ring in a snapshot just taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Skip to main content. ... From the innermost to outermost ring, the divisionsare: D, C, B, A, F, G and E.

When it was discovered in 2009, scientists knew the newest ring around Saturn was big. Now, they can say just how large. It's the biggest in the solar system. In a study Wednesday in Nature ...

Cocktail conundrum. The ring rain that Cassini’s Ion Neutral Mass Spectrometer caught falling from Saturn’s rings into its atmosphere is only about 24 percent water — a major surprise, given ...