Some of the world's most powerful observatories are poised to study the "ring rain" phenomenon. Saturn's ... every second and heating its upper atmosphere. At this rate, the rings might vanish ...

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 rings are slowly disappearing. The rings will vanish in a few hundred million years as icy material from them rains ...

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.

This 2003 Hubble Space Telescope image of the ringed planet Saturn shows a rare storm that appears as a white arrowhead-shaped feature near the planet's equator. The storm is generated by an ...

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 ...

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.

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 rings are disappearing, and we don't know how much longer they will be around. Astronomers have known since the 1980s that Saturn's icy innermost rings are steadily eroding onto its upper ...

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 ...