Specks of dust from Saturn’s rings appear to float much farther above and below the planet than scientists thought possible, suggesting the rings are more like a giant dusty doughnut. The main ...

Researchers completed a complex simulation that supports the idea that the giant planet’s jewelry emerged hundreds of millions of years ago, not billions. By Robin George Andrews Try to imagine Saturn ...

New research shows Saturn’s rings formed about 100 million years ago after a massive collision between Titan and Proto ...

Saturn’s system is mainly shaped by Titan, its largest moon, which is moving outward rapidly due to tidal forces within Saturn. A new study led by SETI Institute scientist Matija Ćuk suggests that ...

Nothing else in the Solar System is quite like Saturn. At its poles, a terrible storm rages, a perfect hexagon twenty thousand miles wide with raindrops of molten diamond, flung by 300-mph winds.

University of Birmingham provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Saturn’s rings are one of the jewels of the solar system, but it seems that their time is short and their ...

Photographed by Cassini in July 2008.. Image: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute (Creative Commons 3.0). Photographed by Cassini in July 2008.. Image: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute (Creative ...

Try to imagine Saturn without its signature rings. Now picture two large icy moons shifting closer together little by little until — boom. Chaos. What was solid is now fluid. Diamantine shards scatter ...