But later – hundreds of millions of years in the future – a permanent, virtually ringless Saturn will become real, thanks to another process called ring rain in which gravity pulls the rings apart and ...

NASA’s Cassini mission provided the world with unparalleled views of Saturn and its rings. After 13 years, its final images ...

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

It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...

Saturn has 124 moons, including Enceladus and Titan and it has average surface temperature is -178 degrees Celsius or -288.4 degrees Fahrenheit. Saturn orbits the Sun at a distance of 1,434 million ...

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 ...

Saturn's spectacular ... distinctive ring structure – made of ice particles and rock – was formed at the same time as the planet, around 4.5 billion years ago. But when NASA's Cassini ...

The photo is composed of multiple images taken during the lunar occultation, capturing the event from beginning to end. The ...

A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it ...

(AP) — New research suggests that Saturn’s rings may be older ... a decade of observations by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft before its demise in 2017. Images by Cassini showed no evidence ...

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 ...

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 ...