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Saturn’s iconic ice and rock rings to disappear this weekend: Here’s why

March 23, 2025 9:11 am

Saturn's rings stretch 2,73,600 kilometers but are only 10 meters thick.

Saturn’s rings will briefly ‘disappear’ in March 2025. Here’s why

September 08, 2024 1:51 pm

NASA confirmed in 2018 that Saturn will indeed lose its rings for good. In fact Saturn’s rings are constantly being pulled towards the planet because of its gravity and magnetic field.

Signs of life on Jupiter's and Saturn's moons could exist near surfaces, NASA finds

July 22, 2024 5:11 pm

Here’s some good news for future space missions meant to search for signs of alien life.

Researchers to study Saturn, Uranus auroras with Webb Telescope

March 23, 2024 10:04 am

Researchers will use precious Webb telescope observing time to study auroras on Saturn and Uranus.

NASA finds life-sparking energy source and molecule on Saturn’s icy moon

December 15, 2023 5:01 pm

A study has found the presence of a key ingredient of life and powerful energy sources that can trigger it.

Saturn will lose its rings. Long before that, they will turn invisible to us

November 07, 2023 5:38 pm

Saturn is set to lose its characteristic rings but that will take a long time as far as humans are concerned. But in 2023, those very rings could become invisible to us.

Saturn's rings shine in planet's first James Webb Space Telescope image

July 04, 2023 6:55 pm

In its first Webb image, Saturn looks very different from how you picture it usually. Here is why.

Saturn's icy moon Enceladus harbors essential elements for life

June 15, 2023 12:19 pm

The discovery was based on data collected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, the first to orbit Saturn, during its 13-year landmark exploration of the gaseous giant planet, its rings and its moons from 2004 to 2017.

NASA testing robot snake 'EELS' to explore oceans on Saturn's moon

June 07, 2023 2:47 pm

The EELS "robot snake" is designed to autonomously explore otherwise inaccessible locations on Earth, Mars and beyond.

How this half-century-old telescope helped discover Saturn and Uranus rings, captured photo-electric images of stars

October 26, 2022 1:33 pm

The list of accomplishments of this 104-cm or one-metre-class optical telescope in Uttarakhand—built and the oldest to be operational in independent India—is long, as it marks its golden jubilee year in 2022.

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