known as the Cassini Division, measures only 2,920 miles in width. The rings' relative thinness and flatness is what allows them to vanish from view every few years due to both Saturn's and Earth ...

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

Why don't Saturn's rings throw a shadow onto the planet's surface, like its moons do? John GrimleyToronto, Ontario The simple ...

An curved arrow pointing right. NASA's Cassini spacecraft is on a daredevil mission that is taking it closer to the planet Saturn than it has been in over a decade. In December, the spacecraft ...

Before its death dive into Saturn in 2017, Cassini managed to get a better look at the amount of ring-dust raining on Saturn’s equator. And discovered that it was raining heavier than previously ...

they flew Cassini through the rings of Saturn and into Saturn’s upper atmosphere multiple times. The daring nature of the Grand Finale paid off handsomely, with a host of returns not possible ...

Of all the planets in our solar system apart from Earth, Saturn tends to steal the show with its breathtaking rings, which have fascinated people for centuries.

This view of the dark Cassini Division, which separates Saturn’s outer A-ring from the inner B-ring, was taken on August 23, 1981, when Voyager 2 was about 1.7 million miles from the planet.

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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 ...

A new discovery, made at the University of Tokyo's School of Science and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, is reshaping our understanding of the history of this planet with its famous rings.

Scientists Compile Cassini's Unique Observations of Saturn's Rings Oct. 18, 2022 — Scientists have compiled 41 solar occultation observations of Saturn's rings from the Cassini mission.