When it was discovered in 2009, scientists knew the newest ring around Saturn was big. Now, they can say just how large. It's the biggest in the solar system. In a study Wednesday in Nature ...

Saturn’s biggest ring just broke its own record. Scientists have found that the planet’s Phoebe ring is more than twice the thickness once thought – even though it can’t be seen with the ...

Saturn’s biggest ring just broke its own record. Scientists have found that the planet’s Phoebe ring is more than twice the thickness once thought — even though it can’t be seen with the ...

The Phoebe ring takes up as much space as about 7,000 Saturns, most of it pieces of dust smaller than the width of a human hair. Saturn's biggest ring is weird, invisible and really, really big - CNET ...

A giant ring around Saturn is even larger than thought, spanning an area of space nearly 7,000 times larger than Saturn itself, researchers say. "We knew it was the biggest ring, but know we find ...

Saturn’s newest halo is thick, too — its vertical height is about 20 times the diameter of the planet. It would take about one billion Earths stacked together to fill the ring.

SEE ALSO: Saturn's rings fan out beautifully in new photo "Appearances can be deceiving," Phil Nicholson, co-author of a study about the discovery in the journal Icarus , said in a statement .

Scientists have discovered Saturn's largest ring to date, a ring of dust and ice difficult to see with visible light telescopes but detected using the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared camera.

Saturn’s Ring Puffs Itself Up With Optical Illusion Saturn’s rings still hold mysteries—including a trick that makes one of its biggest rings look even bigger. February 3, 2016 ...

Saturn's majestic ring system will temporarily disappear from view in 2025 as they turn edge-on, ... reappearing first to the largest telescopes over the months that follow," Horner added.

Though Saturn's rings will be visible again from Earth after March 2025, ... The largest gap, known as the Cassini Division, measures only 2,920 miles in width.