Averting your gaze when viewing the ringed planet can cause an optical phenomenon that might make you think twice about what ...

That’s right, Saturn is losing its rings! And fast. Much faster, even, than scientists had first thought. Right now, it’s raining 10,000 kilograms of ring rain on Saturn per second.

Do astronomers have any estimates of when Saturn's rings will disappear? Doug Kaupa Council Bluffs, Iowa All four of the solar system's giant planets have ring systems. The rings of Jupiter ...

I WRITE to call the attention of observers to the present appearance of the inner dusky ring of Saturn. Although the ring is not very open, only permitting that portion near the ends to be seen on ...

The calculation agrees with one made by a different group which last month examined how fast the ring particles were falling on to Saturn - a rate that was described as being equivalent to an ...

heading towards Saturn. That's ring rain. It turns out, Saturn's magnetic fields are slowly but surely draining away the rings, so we're lucky to visit the rings now, because every 30 minutes ...

This effect is due to the fact that the ring system of Saturn is tilted to the planet’s orbital plane, in much the same way as the Earth’s axis of rotation is tilted to our orbital plane.

The rings, influenced by Saturn's magnetic field, are gradually being pulled into the planet. The phenomenon of "ring rain" may lead to their disappearance in the future. Saturn, a gas giant with ...

That's right, Saturn is losing its rings! And fast. Much faster, even, than scientists had first thought. Right now, it's raining 10,000 kilograms of ring rain on Saturn per second. Fast enough to ...

But the ring may have exacerbated things ... In any case, the idea that our planet once sported a Saturn-like accessory is a reminder that the cosmos is full of surprises — and Earth has ...

Ferrari, C., et al, “Structure of self-gravity wakes in Saturn’s A ring as measured by Cassini CIRS”, Icarus, 199, 145-153, 2009 Leyrat, C., et al. “Spinning particles in Saturn’s C ring fom ...