Saturn's Rings May be Old Timers

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 13:49 in Astronomy & Space

New observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicate the rings of Saturn, once thought to have formed during the age of the dinosaurs, instead may have been created roughly 4.5 billion years ago, when the solar system was still under construction.

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