Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life.

so they created theoretical models to test what would happen if dust particles smashed into the rings at top speed, accelerated by Saturn's gravity. Sign up for Chip Chick's newsletter and get ...

If you were to pick Saturn out of a lineup you’d probably recognize it by its iconic rings. They’re the biggest, brightest rings in our solar system. Extending over 280,000 km from the planet ...

New images beamed back from the Cassini spacecraft show Saturn's distinctive rings in unprecedented detail. While the rings, as a whole, look like perfectly smooth disks from a distance ...

As far as planets go, they don't get much more iconic than Saturn: a huge golden ball encircled by gigantic rings. There's nothing else quite like it in the Solar System. Right now, it's hard to ...

Saturn will temporarily lose its iconic look from our viewpoint on Earth, appearing as a pale, yellow sphere without its swirling rings shrouding the gas giant. The billions of rocky and icy ...

On April 26, NASA's Cassini spacecraft shot between Saturn and its innermost ring, going where no human-made object has gone before. Cassini has already made some new discoveries thanks to its ...

Saturn's rings might not be younger than the dinosaurs as recently suggested, but nearly as old as the giant planet itself at billions of years in age, a new study says. The age of Saturn's rings ...

March has provided astronomy fans across the globe with plenty to appreciate and there is still a lot to keep an eye out for. Cosmic events including a partial lunar eclipse and dazzling planets ...

If you were to pick Saturn out of a lineup you'd probably recognize it by its iconic rings. They're the biggest, brightest rings in our solar system. Extending over 280,000 km from the planet ...

Progress through the ages One of those debates that lasted for centuries revolved around Saturn’s rings. First spotted by Galileo as early as 1610, it was Christiaan Huygens who first identified ...

Rings of Saturn will always carry the taint of the great half-speed recording and Guitar Pro fiascos no matter what they do; they’ll likely be perennially fending off criticism lobbed their way about ...