If you were to pick Saturn out of a lineup you’d probably recognize it by its iconic rings. They’re the biggest, brightest rings in our solar system. Extending over 280,000 km from the planet ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Amateur astronomers have lost one of the jewels of the night sky – the rings of Saturn. The majestic planet has slipped from Earth ...

The rings of Saturn could be much older than previously ... that this is not really telling us that we have to go back to the drawing board.” But Hyodo argues that the lower pollution efficiency ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far beyond any other planet in our solar system. A natural-color view of ...

The simple answer is that Saturn’s rings do cast shadows on the planet’s surface! NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, took the dramatic image of the rings ...

A debate about the age of Saturn’s resplendent rings has been raging for a few decades now, with no end in sight. A new study by researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo and the Paris ...

While some travel within gaps in Saturn's rings and clear a path through the debris, others orbit farther out. The ringed giant's moons also vary considerably in size. The largest, Titan ...

As both planets complete their solar orbit, the way Saturn's rings look from Earth slowly changes. When Saturn's equator is directly aligned with the Sun, sunlight strikes its rings edge-on ...

This evidence aligns with the hypothesis that Saturn’s rings and some of its moons are geologically young. Cassini’s detailed observations provided crucial insights into the rings’ age and mass.