Saturn's famous rings are about to disappear. No, not literally – that isn't projected to happen for hundreds of millions of years. But for astronomers and stargazers using ground-based ...

The angle between Earth and Saturn will briefly create something of a cosmic illusion, in which the planet’s rings look invisible from our vantage point.

Saturn's famous rings are about to disappear. No, not literally – that isn't projected to happen for hundreds of millions of years. But for astronomers and stargazers using ground-based ...

Saturn's rings are long thought to be up to 400 million years old but new data finds they could be around 4.5 billion years old.

New research led by Sascha Kempf of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at CU Boulder finds that Saturn's rings are no more than 400 million years old. That's much younger than ...

An analysis of data from NASA’s defunct Cassini probe suggests Saturn's rings materialized more than 100 million years after trilobites appeared on Earth.

The rings of Saturn — the 6th planet from the sun’s most iconic feature — will temporarily disappear for stargazers this weekend.

Astronomers had long assumed that Saturn's distinctive rings formed around the same time as the planet some 4.5 billion years ago in the earliest days of our Solar System. That assumption received ...

Saturn’s Rings May Be Younger Than Thought—and Disappearing Data from NASA’s Cassini mission points to the rings being no more than 400 million years old—quite young in the planet’s 4.5 ...

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.

Saturn’s rings are no more than 400 million years old – much younger than the planet which formed more than four billion years ago, according to physicists. Researchers used data gathered from ...