Saturn's rings, once thought young, might be as old as the planet itself, around 4.5 billion years. New research using Cassini data suggests micrometeoroid impacts vaporize, keeping the rings ...
In 2025, Saturn’s spectacular rings will disappear. But it won’t be too long before they come back into sight in all their splendor. Their disappearance, after all, is all a matter of perspective. A ...
The idea that Saturn's rings are young seemed very strange in the context of the solar system's long evolutionary history." Saturn's rings might not be younger than the dinosaurs as recently ...