Space agency NASA has warned that the iconic rings of Saturn are disappearing and will be gone within a matter of months. The rings around the planet of Saturn may be one of its most obvious ...

Saturn's rings consist of ice, dust, and rocks, with particles varying in size from small grains to large boulders. Saturn's rings are divided into several main groups, each named in alphabetical ...

But still, it just seemed especially dim. Then I remembered: Saturn’s brilliant rings are disappearing—at least they are from our perspective here on Earth. The normally broad rings presently ...

A startling silhouette of Saturn is created in this Cassini spacecraft portrait. A kingly crescent Saturn rests on the right of this Cassini spacecraft portrait while the moon Mimas appears above the ...

A new discovery, made at the University of Tokyo's School of Science and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, is reshaping our understanding of the history of this planet with its famous rings.

Both Venus and Saturn will be in the Aquarius constellation, the water bearer, during their close approach. To help spot it, ...

Although this year’s disappearing act is simply a visual illusion, Saturn’s rings will disappear for good one day. NASA scientists say the ring system will completely vanish in 100 million to ...

The photo shows the progression of the moon moving in front of Saturn and masking the planet and its rings from Earth's view. The ringed planet disappears behind the unilluminated part of the moon ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the mystery of why no ringed moons exist today.

scientists assumed Saturn’s rings were only about 100 to 400 million years old based on observations made by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini's data showed that the rings were unusually bright ...

The crags frame a glowing Saturn, floating huge, rings nearly edge-on ... promised could not be more different. Released from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, the Huygens probe descended by parachute ...