Saturn's rings might not be younger than the dinosaurs as recently suggested, but nearly as old as the giant planet itself at billions of years in age, a new study says. The age of Saturn's rings ...

The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the ...

Understanding the age of Saturn’s rings is a matter of determining the mass of the planet, the gravitational pull of Saturn on the rings, and the mass of the rings. In order to directly sample ...

A debate about the age of Saturn’s resplendent rings has been raging for a few decades now, with no end in sight. A new study by researchers at the Institute of Science Tokyo and the Paris ...

“The efficiency of accretion by Saturn's rings is only a few per cent, which is much, much smaller than previously assumed,” says Hyodo. This could extend previous estimates of the ring age by ...

However, observations from the Cassini probe (NASA-ESA) revealed that Saturn's rings are composed of more than 99% water ice. This composition led to studies in the 2010s-2020s estimating their age to ...

New Study Puts a Definitive Age on Saturn's Rings -- They're Really Young May 12, 2023 — Physicists measured the flux of interplanetary dust around Saturn. The researchers concluded that the ...

ON a memorable evening in the year 1610 Galileo sat in the tower of his observatory in Florence, and gazed through his newly-invented “perspective glass” at Saturn ... of the age, he made ...