In 2025, Saturn’s spectacular rings will disappear. But it won’t be too long before they come back into sight in all their splendor. Their disappearance, after all, is all a matter of perspective. A ...

But later – hundreds of millions of years in the future – a permanent, virtually ringless Saturn will become real, thanks to ...

The idea that Saturn's rings are young seemed very strange in the context of the solar system's long evolutionary history." ...

Saturn has unseated Jupiter as the solar system's most moon-bearing planet, the Carnegie Institution for Science announced on Monday. Scientists discovered 20 previously unknown moons orbiting ...

In 2004, when NASA's Cassini probe arrived to study Saturn, it discovered that the ice chunks and particles of the rings were free of the cosmic dust that scientists expected to find. Their ...

Saturn's rings, once thought young, might be as old as the planet itself, around 4.5 billion years. New research using ...

It's hard to imagine Saturn without its glorious, extensive, complicated rings. Yet, when the Cassini probe arrived to study the planet in 2004, it made a curious discovery: the ice chunks and ...

7, 2024 — Saturn's moon Mimas harbors a global ocean beneath its icy shell, discovered through analysis of its orbit by Cassini spacecraft data. This ocean formed just 5-15 million years ago ...

More information: Romy Rodriguez Martinez et al, Discovery and Characterization of an Eccentric, Warm Saturn Transiting the Solar Analog TOI-4994, arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.02769 ...

Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the planet with the most moons, according to US researchers. A team discovered a haul of 20 new moons orbiting the ringed planet, bringing its total to 82 ...

The age of the rings that encircle Saturn is under dispute thanks to calculations that show they could have been formed ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of Saturn July 4, 2020. Two of Saturn's icy moons are clearly visible in this exposure: Mimas at right and Enceladus at the bottom. This image is ...