The rain it raineth every day, as Shakespeare noted, apparently even on Saturn. The cosmos, it seems, is no comfort at this ...

Saturn's spectacular rings will disappear. But it won't be too long before they come back into sight in all their splendor.

New research suggests that Saturn’s rings may be older than they look — possibly as old as the planet. Instead of being a ...

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

Saturn’s rings are long thought to be between 100 million and 400 million years old based on more than a decade of ...

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 ...

For most of the 20th century, scientists assumed that Saturn’s rings formed along with the planet, some 4.5 billion years ago. But when NASA’s Cassini spacecraft visited Saturn in 2004 ...

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.

Encountering Neptune in 1989, NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer ...

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

According to the team's calculations, the amount of dust expected to land on the rings every year is around 166 billion tons. From this, they were able to predict the ring system's age was put at ...