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.

In three months, Saturn's iconic, icy rings will appear to disappear, giving you a preview of what the planet could look like 100 million to 300 million years from now.. On March 23, an optical ...

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.

Saturn’s rings are breaking apart and heating up planet’s thin atmosphere, study finds. Ring particles modifying Saturn’s upper atmosphere, changing its composition, scientists say ...

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's rings are long thought to be up to 400 million years old but new data finds they could be around ... suggesting instead that they could date back 4.5 billion years to when the planet formed.

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.