Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life.

(Saturn’s inner moons orbit within the E ring.) The slender F ring had to wait for Pioneer 11 to make its debut, and the most recently discovered ring, G, was discovered in 1980 by Voyager 1.

It has to do with Saturn, potentially one of the most recognizable planets in our solar system thanks to its rings. According to NASA, those rings are believed to be made up of rocky and icy ...

Will Saturn's rings return? Wayne Schlingman, PhD, director of the Arne Slettebak Planetarium at The Ohio State University, preps us for Saturn's equinox. If you look in the sky and notice Saturn’s ...

If you were to pick Saturn out of a lineup you’d probably recognize it by its iconic rings. They’re the biggest, brightest rings in our solar system. Extending over 280,000 km from the planet ...

The seven main rings are labelled in the order in which they were discovered. From the planet outward, they are D, C, B, A, F, G and E." They continue: "The particles in Saturn's rings are ...

Rings of Saturn, the band that records their albums at half speed, have won the competition to open this year’s Summer Slaughter trek, beating out a dozen or so other, more-qualified bands in an ...

2008. Moonlets and Clumps in Saturn’s F Ring. Icarus. Vol 194/1, 278-289. Esposito, L.W. 2010. Composition, Structure, Dynamics and Evolution of Saturn’s rings. Annual Review of Earth & Planetary ...

As NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory explains in a new blog post, Saturn’s iconic rings tend to litter some of its moons with a variety of material, coating them as they drift in orbit around ...

Robert French studies the rings and moons of the outer planets of our solar system - their origin, evolution, and eventual demise. Over the past ten years at the SETI Institute, he has investigated ...

Rings of Saturn will always carry the taint of the great half-speed recording and Guitar Pro fiascos no matter what they do; they’ll likely be perennially fending off criticism lobbed their way about ...

F and G rings are fainter and were discovered more recently. Very far out, there is a faint ring in the orbit of Saturn's moon Phoebe. Material is always falling from the rings toward Saturn in a ...