Summary:
- Saturn's iconic rings are made up of billions of small chunks of ice and rock, which may have come from the remains of a lost moon that was destroyed long ago.
- New evidence suggests that the rings were formed when a moon that orbited Saturn was shattered, possibly by a collision with another object or by tidal forces that pulled it apart.
- This theory helps explain the composition and structure of the rings, which are believed to have been formed over a relatively short period of time, rather than gradually accumulating over billions of years.