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

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

The age of the rings that encircle Saturn is under dispute thanks to calculations that show they could have been formed ...

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

Computer modeling suggests Saturn's rings are billions of years older than previous research suggests — but the new findings ...

Saturn's rings, once thought young, might be as old as the planet itself, around 4.5 billion years. New research using ...

Saturn, the sixth planet in our Solar System, is renowned for its stunning ring system, a remarkable feature of astronomical ...

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 ...

Scientists had thought one way to solve this mystery was a closer look at Saturn's rings. Over time, micrometeoroids — rocks smaller than a grain of sand hurtling through space — would have slammed ...

Saturn's rings are long thought to be between 100 million ... darkening of the rings by impacting micrometeoroids — space rock particles smaller than a grain of sand — prompting scientists ...

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 ...