Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...
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 ...
In early 2025, you will get a chance to have an even more unusual view: Saturn, without its rings obscuring it. Saturn will not have its distinctive rings forever. When NASA's Voyager probe first ...
A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the ...
The best time to view Saturn's rings before the disappearance would have been late last year, when they were tilted at an around 9 degree angle. That angle has now decreased to around 3.7 degrees ...
I t's hard to imagine Saturn without its glorious, extensive, complicated rings. Yet, when the Cassini probe arrived to study the planet in 2004, it made a curious discovery: the ice chunks and ...
Note that a small telescope is needed to see Saturn with or without its rings. If you don’t have one yourself, you can go on a night tour at a public observatory like Sydney Observatory or an ...
Saturn's spectacular rings may be far older than we thought – according to a new study, they may have been there from the gas giant's birth. Saturn is thought to be amongst the oldest bodies in ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — (AP) — 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 ...