Saturn's rings might not be younger than the dinosaurs as recently suggested, ... Hyodo and his colleagues developed 3D computer models simulating crashes between micrometeoroids and the rings.

An optical illusion during Saturn's equinox is to blame for the rings disappearing from view briefly. The next time this is set to happen is May 6, 2025.

And the event is relatively rare: Ring plane crossings — as the phenomenon is known — typically occur twice during the 29.4 years it takes Saturn to make one orbit around the sun.

Invite your child to make 3D art to learn more about Saturn's rings. As you work together, ask your child how the materials you're using are similar or different from the actual materials that ...

Saturn’s rings are slowly disappearing. The rings will vanish in a few hundred million years as icy material from them rains down on the planet, scientists predict.

Ingredients for life discovered on Saturn moon; astronauts perform spacewalk 05:54. Saturn's rings will seemingly disappear from view in 2025, a phenomenon caused by the planet's rotation on an axis.

Saturn’s rings are no more than a few hundred million years old and will only exist as they are today for another few hundred million years. Skip to content.

The rings of Saturn are the most intricate planetary decorations in our solar system, ... And that 3D structure was "one that is also very fluid, very variable, you know, ...

That’s because Saturn’s F ring, which surrounds them, is thicker in the vertical direction than the inner rings, which are about 10 metres thick, obscuring edge-on views of the inner rings.

Saturn's rings might not be younger than the dinosaurs as recently suggested, ... Hyodo and his colleagues developed 3D computer models simulating crashes between micrometeoroids and the rings.

NASA image showing how Saturn's rings will appear to disappear during its equinox in 2025. NASA. The last time this was visible was in September 2009, and will occur again in October 2038.