Gather round, folks — formative, punishing daddy planet Saturn, AKA the true lord of the rings, is going retrograde. Saturn ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The rings orbit directly above Saturn’s equator and so they too are tilted to the plane of Saturn’s orbit. A mosaic of images from NASA’s Cassini mission taken in 2016, highlighting Saturn’s axial ...

Uncover the mystery behind Saturn’s iconic rings. ExtremeTech explains their origins and the science of our solar system. Dive into the cosmos today!

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.