Earlier research had found that the rings of Saturn respond to vibrations within the planet. Saturn's interior vibrates at frequencies that cause slight variations in its gravitational field, and the ...

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Samples from a new site place the rocks at approximately 4.16 billion years old, in the earliest period of Earth's history.