Uncover the mystery behind Saturn’s iconic rings. ExtremeTech explains their origins and the science of our solar system.

Four of our planets have rings, but Saturn's are enormous and complex, in a class of their own. Just after the turn of the 17th century, Galileo Galilei designed and built the first telescope ...

People thinks over Saturn’s awe-inspiring system of rings that enclose the gas giant to be the most fascinating and iconic ...

But at two points in between, its rings are exactly side-on to the Sun—and seem, to observers far away, to disappear. Galileo Galilei, the first person to study Saturn through a telescope ...

The Chicxulub impactor that killed the non-avian dinosaurs 66 million years ago, had a mass of order that of Phobos, 10^{16} kilograms, about a thousand times less than the total mass of Saturn’s ...

Roughly every 15 years, Earth passes through the plane of Saturn’s rings, causing them to nearly disappear from view — not to mention generating a variety of other interesting phenomena.

The Rings of Power season 2 brought the latest outing of the Lord of the Rings prequel series to a dramatic close. However, this story is far from over. At the end of the latest episodes of the ...

GALILEO: Good morning, guys, I hope you're having a lovely day. I am Galileo Galilei, a scientist from Italy and I am the man who is making some exciting discoveries around force and I am here ...

That's nine times wider than Earth. Saturn is made up of mostly hydrogen and helium, with a smaller area of hot liquid metal under its layers of gases. Saturn's rings are made of ice and rocks, and ...

“The Olympic symbol consists of five interlaced rings of equal dimensions (the Olympic rings), used alone, in one or in five different colours. When used in its five-colour version, these colours ...