A new study suggests that Saturn's rings may be as old as the planet itself, challenging previous estimates about their age.

This is a world of unique complexity, made up of a central body and its satellites, not to mention the famous ring surrounding the planet at its equator. Saturn is also being ... and his Dutch ...

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Saturn’s rings are among the most glorious, stunning, and well-studied features in the Solar System. However, their age has ...

In December, the spacecraft skimmed by Saturn's outer rings, snapping some of the most detailed images we have ever seen. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Science NASA's Cassini ...

Four of our planets have rings, but Saturn's are enormous and complex ... Dutch polymath and lens grinder Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan, the first known moon of Saturn.

Notably, Galileo Galilei's early telescopic observations in the 1610s couldn't resolve Saturn's rings. It was only in 1655, thanks to Christiaan Huygens, that the detached rings were identified.

[Christiaan Huygens] was a pretty decent mathematician ... He discovered Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, and also studied the planet’s rings. He achieved this despite telescopes that were ...

The photos the probe took revealed some astonishing things about Saturn, its rings and moons. Scientists have watched a new band of the ring form and witnessed the changing of seasons on this gas ...

Nothing else in the Solar System is quite like Saturn. At its poles, a terrible storm rages, a perfect hexagon twenty thousand miles wide with raindrops of molten diamond, flung by 300-mph winds.