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 ...

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 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, perhaps the most defining part of the gas giant, are going to vanish by March 2025, according to Earth.com. But they aren't disintegrating, and it's nothing permanent. No ...

Astronomers have known about the rings of Saturn for nearly four centuries ... It will emerge into the predawn sky during April, but no matter what size telescope you use, you may find the ...

“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 ...

which suggested that Saturn's rings are relatively young, perhaps no more than 400 million years old. Not all scientists agree with this conclusion. Sascha Kempf from the University of Colorado ...

As far as planets go, they don't get much more iconic than Saturn: a huge golden ball encircled by gigantic rings. There's nothing else quite like it in the Solar System. Right now, it's hard to ...

No arrow of time links past ... We ourselves, with our confusions and distractions, are time. As Saturn’s rings vanish during 2025, so too does the constancy Galileo thought he observed in ...

At that time, for a few days, Saturn’s rings will appear to completely vanish ... Colorado River states still have no unified long-term management plan and ‘are just about out of time ...

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.