Saturn's innermost rings are steadily disappearing as they're being sucked up into the planet's upper atmosphere — and ... succumbing to its intense gravity. But there's a lot we still don ...

The 4.5-billion-year-old planet appears to have acquired its iconic ornamentation ... reported silicate grains falling from the rings into Saturn’s atmosphere (SN: 10/4/18).

This means we are just lucky to be living in an age when the giant planet has its magnificent rings ... pool of mass from the rings is lost into Saturn's atmosphere every half-hour.

“If we can discover what happened in that system a few hundred million years ago to form the rings, we may just end up discovering why Saturn’s moon Enceladus is spewing out from its deep ...

Saturn's rings are falling in on the planet as icy rain, according to researchers. Scientists say this is occurring due to the planet's intense gravity. Dr. James O’Donoghue, from the Japan ...

Cassini performed 22 dives between Saturn and its rings, enabling scientists to determine the mass of both before the spacecraft plunged to its fiery death in the gas giant's atmosphere.

Saturn's ring's are a young age of only 400million years old — just a fraction of the 5billion years the planet has existed for. An international team of physicists has the most compelling ...

This means we are just lucky to be living in an age when the giant planet has its magnificent rings ... pool of mass from the rings is lost into Saturn’s atmosphere every half-hour.

he and his colleagues set out to put a date on Saturn's rings by studying how rapidly this layer of dust builds up -- a bit like telling how old a house is by running your finger along its surfaces.

Saturn's innermost rings are steadily disappearing as they're being sucked up into the planet's upper atmosphere — and ... succumbing to its intense gravity. But there's a lot we still don ...

Saturn's innermost rings are steadily disappearing as they're being sucked up into the planet's upper atmosphere — and ... succumbing to its intense gravity. But there's a lot we still don ...

Saturn's innermost rings are steadily disappearing as they're being sucked up into the planet's upper atmosphere — and ... succumbing to its intense gravity. But there's a lot we still don ...