#planetary-science

#planetary-science

Saturn's rings were likely first seen by Galileo in 1610, who could only see a pair of blobs due to the quality of his telescope.

This is a remarkable opportunity," said Bobby Braun, who leads space exploration for the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, in an interview. "From a probability standpoint, there's not going to be another chance to study a killer asteroid like this for thousands of years.

The observations indicate the possible self-destruction of a Jupiter-sized planet as it headed toward its parent star, marking the first recorded instance of "planetary suicide."

The most advanced neutrino weigh-in so far has put a new upper limit on the enigmatic particle's mass, capping it at 0.45 electron volts (eV).