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 ...

scientists can gather data about the interaction between the rings and Saturn’s atmosphere, as well as how their structure changes over time. This event offers a brief but invaluable window into ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Titan is the only known moon with an atmosphere, and the most Earth-like place we know of. It has rain, lakes, and oceans ...

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

The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick atmosphere after all, according to new research. When you purchase through links on our site ...

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 ...

Footage of Saturn's northern lights taken by the Cassini spacecraft ... which are funnelled down and collide with a planet's atmosphere via the planet's magnetic field. "Our magnetic field is ...