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

When these collisions take place, the icy particles vaporize, forming charged water molecules that interact with Saturn’s magnetic field; ultimately, falling toward Saturn, where they burn up in ...

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, they lose enough water to ...

Saturn's iconic rings are expected to disappear within ... of paper “when it’s positioned at the far end of a soccer field,” the website stated. The rings measure as thin as 300 feet in ...

It's suspected they are ring material that is temporarily charged and levitated by interaction between Saturn's magnetic field and the solar wind, but this hypothesis has not been confirmed.

Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA Charged solar particles flow along Saturn's magnetic field to its poles, generating a display (in infrared) akin to Earth's northern lights. Right click ...

Saturn’s iconic rings are slowly dissolving as icy particles spiral into the planet, tugged by gravity and magnetic fields in a process known as “ring rain.” Water-rich ring particles become ...