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 ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the ...

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 ...

Early in October this year, Saturn presented the strange appearance of being entirely without rings, even when viewed in the most powerful of telescopes. No great catastrophe had happened on the ...

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 ...

Top notch amateur photographer Damian Peach took this Saturn picture three years ago, when the planet’s rings were angled ...

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 ...