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

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 ...

It also found that icy particles from the rings rain down on Saturn and help heat its atmosphere. However, the Cassini spacecraft has revealed the most about Saturn’s rings. It spent 13 years ...

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.

Launched in 1997, Cassini-Huygens entered Saturn's orbit in 2004, providing unprecedented insights into the gas giant's atmosphere, intricate ring system and diverse moons. The Huygens probe ...

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 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 ...

However, the rings’ slow decay over millions of years means that this vanishing act is a preview of a more permanent disappearance in the distant future. Cassini Space Craft orbiting Saturn. Image by ...

as seen from the Cassini spacecraft. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute via AP) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — New research ...

New findings suggest that Saturn’s rings formed a few hundred million years ago—relatively recent in cosmic terms—from the debris of two icy moons colliding and shattering.

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 ...

"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 ...