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 ...

Saturn's ionosphere and upper atmosphere are complex and dynamic regions influenced by various factors, including the planet's rings, solar radiation, and internal atmospheric processes.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere on September 15, marking an end to its mission to study the ringed planet and its many, mysterious moons.

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 ...