New NASA supercomputer simulations show that Saturn's rings may have been formed by a 'massive collision' of icy moons.

(NEXSTAR) — Skywatchers have had a dazzling year so far, with a solar eclipse, the return of the ‘devil comet,’ and multiple chances to see the northern lights. The stunning sights will continue into ...

Saturn's many rings are disappearing, and in 2025, the rings won't be visible from Earth, at least temporarily. Saturn's ring system extends up to 175,000 miles from the surface of the planet making ...

Saturn’s innermost rings are steadily disappearing as they’re being sucked up into the planet’s upper atmosphere — and scientists are still trying to figure out why, Space.com reports, using the ...

Perhaps the most iconic sight in the Solar System — if not the universe — is Saturn’s rings, something every sighted person ...

In fact, the rings—made up of mostly ice and rocky dust from broken asteroids—are much younger than the planet itself and likely formed when dinosaurs still roamed the Earth. "Our inescapable ...

Astronomers had long assumed that Saturn's distinctive rings formed around the same time as the planet some 4.5 billion years ago in the earliest days of our Solar System. That assumption received a ...