New theory: Saturn's rings may be remnants of a moon

About 100 million years ago, one of Saturn's moons may have come much too close to its planet. Now an American astronomer suspects that the moon was torn apart by Saturn's gravity and that the remnants formed the rings that surround the planet.

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