Icy hot. Ice particles from Saturn’s rings are falling into the planet’s atmosphere. In part because the particles vaporize, energy is released, heating up and making the sky glow at ...

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.

Saturn is the sixth planet in the solar system and is about 910 million miles from the sun. It's the second-largest planet and is approximately 10 times larger than Earth .

NASA's Voyager 1 flew past Saturn in 1980 and, along with Voyager 2, which reached the planet in 1981, snapped nearly 16,000 images of Saturn, its rings and its moons.

Astronomers announced the discovery of 128 new moons orbiting Saturn on Tuesday. The moons are only a few kilometers in size. Saturn has more moons than any planet in our solar system.

SATURN has now become well visible as a morning star. The rings being turned nearly edgeways to the earth, the belts in both hemispheres may be observed to advantage. The irregular makings can ...

IN these days, when the telescope is in more or less common use, and so many have opportunities of observing the heavenly bodies, it is interesting to look back on the past and survey in a general ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — New research suggests that Saturn’s rings may be older than they look — possibly as old as the planet. Instead of being a youthful 400 million years old as commonly ...

“You need to be able to prove that the object is in orbit around the planet,” said Dr. Ashton, who was also responsible for finding 62 new moons of Saturn two years ago.