Cassini Reveals the Surprisingly Young Age of Saturn's Rings

Exploring Saturn's Rings
During NASA's Cassini spacecraft’s Grand Finale, the craft dove between the planet and its rings. In doing so, it collected new insights into the ringed planet, including the surprising age of Saturn’s rings. According to a new study, scientists have found that Saturn’s rings are actually much younger than the planet itself. And they most likely formed in the last 100 million years.Before swooping in between the planet and its rings, Cassini orbited the