Saturn: jewel of the solar system, taker of breaths, ringed beauty. Even veteran astronomers can't help but gasp when they see her through a small telescope.

Red Alert: Saturn's rings are vanishing.

Around the world, amateur astronomers have noticed the change; Saturn's wide open rings are rapidly narrowing into a thin line. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Saturn has a newly discovered ring, a faint trail of particles just visible in between some of its better-known rings, NASA said on Tuesday. picked by Galoot 2 years ago

New observations by a spacecraft suggest Saturn's second-largest moon may be surrounded by rings. If confirmed, it would the first time a ring system has been found around a moon. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Gaps in the soup of high-energy particles near the orbits of two of Saturn’s tiny moons indicate that Saturn may be surrounded by undiscovered, near-invisible partial rings. A paper in the February issue of the journal Icarus suggests that the larger saturnian moons may not be the only ones contributing material to Saturn's ring system. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Two decades of scrutinizing Saturn are finally paying off, as scientists have discovered a wave pattern, or oscillation, in Saturn's atmosphere only visible from Earth every 15 years. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago

One of Saturn's rings does housecleaning, soaking up material gushing from the fountains on Saturn's tiny ice moon Enceladus, according to new observations from the Cassini spacecraft. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

The formation of strange flying-saucer-shaped moons embedded in Saturn's rings have baffled scientists. New findings suggest they're born largely from clumps of icy particles in the rings themselves, an insight that could shed light on how Earth and other planets coalesced from the disk of matter that once surrounded our newborn sun. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

The discovery of more oddly shaped gaps in Saturn's rings strengthens the case that one of the planet's moons was smashed to bits in an ancient collision. Shaped like airplane propellers, the gaps likely formed when "moonlets" as large as football stadiums plowed through Saturn's ring particles while orbiting the planet. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Saturn's shimmering rings may be as old as the solar system, scientists said Wednesday, debunking earlier theories that the rings were formed during the dinosaur age. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

A sniff test of water vapor spewing from Saturn's moon Enceladus shows it is gushing with organic molecules, increasing the possibility of life existing somewhere in the Saturn system. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Enceladus, the tiny satellite of Saturn, is colder than ice, but data gathered by the Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan has detected a hot spot that could mean there is life in the old moon after all. In fact, for researchers of the outer planets, Enceladus is so intellectually hot, it's smokin'. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

High resolution observations of Saturn's radio emissions have just been made public by NASA. Listen to NASA's Saturn radio emissions, then listen to the classic 1956 science fiction movie Forbidden Planet. The similarities are startling. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

So these two morons continue to attempt to grab fame by acting like idiots on The View.

I am submitting this headline - it is real. BUT I am linking it to an actual cool story about new stuff we have discovered about Saturn's rings.

Hopefully, we can all ignore the two clowns and they will just go away. picked by Moe 1 year ago

Cassini scientists may have identified the source of one of Saturn's more mysterious rings. Saturn's G ring likely is produced by relatively large, icy particles that reside within a bright arc on the ring's inner edge. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

This 3D movie was made from a sequence of images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft as it crossed the plane of Saturn's main rings. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

NASA has released photos taken over the past few months from its Cassini spacecraft as it orbits around Saturn. Site includes high-res images that make for dandy wallpaper. picked by Wingnut 1 year ago

Brought to life on film, J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy ruled in theaters and on DVD. Now the classic tale of hobbits, dwarves, elves, men and magic moves into the world of online role-playing. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A deep, hexagon-shaped feature lies above Saturn's north pole, newly released images from the Cassini spacecraft reveal.

Are there aliens there? Stationary on a gas giant? picked by squirmster 1 year ago

Scientists say they now believe rotating eddies are driving Saturn's jet stream winds, not the other way around. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Mysterious vapor geysers on a Saturn moon may result from massive cracks in ice cover opening and closing under the gravitational sway of the satellite's lopsided orbit picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago