Understanding the age of Saturn’s rings is a matter of determining the mass of the planet, the gravitational pull of Saturn on the rings, and the mass of the rings. In order to directly sample ...

However, observations from the Cassini probe (NASA-ESA) revealed that Saturn's rings are composed of more than 99% water ice. This composition led to studies in the 2010s-2020s estimating their age to ...

“The efficiency of accretion by Saturn's rings is only a few per cent, which is much, much smaller than previously assumed,” says Hyodo. This could extend previous estimates of the ring age by ...

New Study Puts a Definitive Age on Saturn's Rings -- They're Really Young May 12, 2023 — Physicists measured the flux of interplanetary dust around Saturn. The researchers concluded that the ...

Children of Saturn, a first-person found-footage game about a group of teenagers coming of age in an era of climate catastrophe, taps directly into this feeling, speaking to our current moment and ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Saturn is already visible in the post-sunset night sky, but it will reach its annual opposition on September 7-8, 2024.