Beyond the idea that they're no older than Saturn itself, there's next to no consensus on how the rings of Saturn came to be. What we do know is that the shape and destiny of Saturn's rings are ...

The study challenges the widely accepted theory that Saturn's rings are between ... micrometeoroids striking the rings are vaporized on impact, leaving little to no dark residue behind.

Saturn’s rings might have formed while trilobites scuttled about on Earth. Space dust has been accumulating on the icy halos for no more than 400 million years, researchers report in the May 12 ...

The research, published May 12 in the journal Science Advances, pegs the age of Saturn’s rings at no more than 400 million years old. That makes the rings much younger than Saturn itself, which is ...

It was no fairy tale for young James ... took the first-ever direct measurements of material leaving Saturn’s rings. Cassini was equipped with a cosmic dust analyzer, which detected water ...

“When we have these ring plane crossings, the light that normally reflects off Saturn’s rings is no longer glaring back toward Earth,” he said. “That means you can detect a lot more of the ...

For now, the disappearance of Saturn's rings is just a temporary ... Say goodbye to soggy food and hello to chilled drinks — no ice required. Get a powerful refurbished 13.3" Apple MacBook ...

Saturn's rings are long thought to be between 100 million ... Images by Cassini showed no evidence of any darkening of the rings by impacting micrometeoroids — space rock particles smaller ...

On March 23, 2025, Saturn's distinctive rings are set to disappear. Those rings are composed of billions of dust, ice, and rock fragments. Due to the angle we see it and the planet's tilt ...

Nothing else in the Solar System is quite like Saturn. At its poles, a terrible storm rages, a perfect hexagon twenty thousand miles wide with raindrops of molten diamond, flung by 300-mph winds.