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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If a small model were constructed of Saturn ... should tell us whether Saturn's rings are one body or many, seems a far cry; but, such is the case. This it does by measuring the motion of the ...

The small moon, which is known as Saturn's "Death Star" moon because of its distinctive crater (not visible in the above image), can be seen floating above the planet's rings. SEE ALSO ...

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 ...

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, the band that records their albums at half speed, have won the competition to open this year’s Summer Slaughter trek, beating out a dozen or so other, more-qualified bands in an ...