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

The study challenges the widely accepted theory that Saturn's rings are between 100 and 400 million years old, a conclusion based on observations from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This Jan.

When Nasa launched its Cassini spacecraft in 1997 to study Saturn, its mission was to take pictures, giving the closest, most detailed look at Saturn's rings and its moons. Observations made by ...

"Instead, we have shown that our interpretation of the Cassini data may be wrong," he said. Based on this new low rate of darkening that Hyodo and his colleagues estimated Saturn's rings ...

Saturn's rings, once thought young, might be as old as the planet itself, around 4.5 billion years. New research using Cassini data suggests micrometeoroid impacts vaporize, keeping the rings ...

The Cassini spacecraft, which arrived at Saturn in 2004, provided comprehensive data confirming that Saturn's rings are relatively bright and clean, leading to the conclusion that they formed long ...

Over time, micrometeoroids — rocks smaller than a grain of sand hurtling through space — would have slammed into the bright icy particles making up Saturn's rings. The level of dirt seen on the rings ...

The idea that Saturn's rings are young seemed very strange in the context of the solar system's long evolutionary history." Saturn's rings might not be younger than the dinosaurs as recently ...

Saturn's rings are long thought to be between 100 million and 400 million years old based on more than a decade of observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft before its demise in 2017. Images by ...

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 ...

In recent years, Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the planet with the most satellites in our solar system. How many moons does ...