But later – hundreds of millions of years in the future – a permanent, virtually ringless Saturn will become real, thanks to another process called ring rain in which gravity pulls the rings apart and ...

SATURN’S iconic rings are set to disappear in weeks, and won’t come back into full view until 2032 The vanishing act is all ...

The rest were shot into space or pulled back into Saturn's atmosphere. "In the end, micrometeoroid material (darkening material of rings), now in the form of nanoparticles and ions, either slam ...

It also sets the stage for the probe's dramatic end-manoeuvre next month when it will plunge to destruction in the planet's atmosphere. Cassini is currently flying a series of loops around Saturn ...

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...

Narrator: In 2017, NASA's Cassini probe sent us our closest view of Saturn as it dove into the planet's stormy atmosphere. And the results were stunning. But what would it be like if humans made ...

"In the end, micrometeoroid material (darkening material of rings), now in the form of nano-particles and ions, either slam into the planet or escape into Saturn's atmosphere or out into space.

gravitational escape or electromagnetic drag into Saturn’s atmosphere," the team write in their paper, adding, "therefore, the concept of exposure age, which suggests that Saturn’s rings are ...

A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it ...

The resulting charged particles are either sucked into Saturn’s atmosphere or ejected into space, keeping the rings remarkably clean and challenging the idea that they are young. With this new ...

In it, Saturn hangs over windswept snow and brown ... With a thick nitrogen-methane atmosphere, Titan’s sky is choked with organic compounds, dust and aerosols. This is a world of hydrocarbon ...