An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

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

But later – hundreds of millions of years in the future – a permanent, virtually ringless Saturn will become real, thanks to ...

It'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 ...

The rings of Saturn could be much older than previously believed, possibly as old as the planet itself. In 2004, when NASA's Cassini probe arrived to study Saturn, it discovered that the ice ...

Saturn’s rings are among the most glorious, stunning, and well-studied features in the Solar System. However, their age has ...

Today, it is known that Saturn has seven rings composed mainly of water ice and to a lesser extent of minerals, extending more than 100,000 kilometers from the planet. For over 400 years ...

The idea that Saturn's rings are young seemed very strange in the context of the solar system's long evolutionary history." ...

This view happens every 13.7 to 15.7 years, with the next side-on view taking place on March 23, 2025. After that, we will begin to see the underside of Saturn's rings and its south pole, another view ...

New research has cast doubt on the long-held belief that Saturn's rings are relatively young, suggesting instead that they could date back 4.5 billion years to when the planet formed. The study ...

A new study by scientists in Japan suggests that Saturn's famous rings could be billions, rather than millions of years old.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Saturn's rings might not be younger than the dinosaurs as recently suggested, but nearly as old ...