The scientific team believes that these low levels of contamination could have misled astronomers for decades. Planetologists ...

New research suggests that Saturn’s rings may be older than they look — possibly as old as the planet. Instead of being a ...

Saturn has finally joined its fellow solar system giant planets as the parent of trailing asteroids called "Trojans." But the ...

If Saturn's rings are older, they are also easier to explain. The Solar System was much more chaotic billions of years ago, ...

Saturn is angled in a way in which the edge of its thin rings are oriented toward Earth – effectively causing them to vanish.

Even when you know that the phenomenon is temporary and recurring, the vanishing of something familiar is still disconcerting. So it is with Saturn’s rings.

Famously known for its extensive ring system, Saturn is one of four planets in ... from the planet based on the measurements of past rubble-pile asteroids. The asteroid would have been largely ...

A group of Earth scientists have asked the question “Did Earth ever have a ring?” And surprisingly the evidence points to ...

But some of these asteroids, either through collisions ... look through a telescope for the first time and see the rings of Saturn or the Galilean moons of Jupiter. I’ve loved astronomy and ...

There's no cause for concern – at least not yet. Every year, over 3,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are found by NASA's survey telescopes. With the use of more powerful and sophisticated ...

The majority of known asteroids orbit inside the main asteroid belt, which is positioned between Mars and Jupiter at an ...

Saturn is famous for its beautiful rings which extend out about 280,000 km from the planet, the rings have an average thickness of only 10m. The rings are thought to be bits of comets, asteroids ...