Images of Saturn’s narrow and contorted F ring returned by cameras onboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have revealed phenomena not previously detected in any planetary ring. The findings are ...

It’s certainly possible to consume water sourced from the icy rings of Saturn, but doing so safely may require extra steps ...

Saturn’s ring system is actually a series of seven nested rings, with the innermost edge of the innermost one lying just 4,200 mi. (6,800 km) above Saturn’s cloudtops and the outermost edge of ...

A bright disruption in Saturn’s narrow F ring suggests it may have been disturbed recently. This feature was mostly likely not caused by Pandora (50 miles or 81 kilometers across) which lurks ...

Saturn's rings might not be younger than the dinosaurs as recently suggested, but nearly as old as the giant planet itself at billions of years in age, a new study says. News.

The dynamic rings around Saturn are much younger than originally thought, with new research from the University of Colorado putting their age at 400 million years compared to the planet's age of ...

A Cassini image of shepherd moons acting on Saturn’s F ring. Image: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute To model how a satellite could maintain Chariklo’s rings, the team conducted N-body ...

Saturn's iconic rings seem to glow eerily in this incredible infrared picture, which also unveils unexpected features in Saturn's atmosphere. This image serves as context for an observing program ...

Although all four giant planets have ring systems, Saturn's is by far the most massive and impressive. Scientists are trying to understand why by studying how the rings have formed and how they ...