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 ...

Data from NASA's Cassini mission points to the rings being no more than 400 million years old—quite young in the planet's 4.5-billion-year history ...

Some of the world's most powerful observatories are poised to study the "ring rain" phenomenon. Saturn's rings are disappearing ... every second and heating its upper atmosphere.

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

New research claims that Saturn's rings, while still very young, could disappear in the next few hundred million years.

Six years ago the Cassini spacecraft, which had spent nearly two decades in orbit around Saturn, finished its mission with a ...

Maxwell determined that the "ring" had to be made up of lots of small particles, all independently orbiting Saturn ... plunged to its fiery death in the gas giant's atmosphere.

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 ...