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 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 ...

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.

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...

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 ...

A ring system circling a young giant planet about 430 light years from Earth is 200 times the size of Saturn's rings, scientists have discovered. WSJ's Monika Auger reports. Photo: Ron Miller ...

The mystery behind Saturn's weirdest ring, the F ring, and its two shepherd moons, Pandora and Prometheus, has been solved. An ancient collision caused it, scientists say.