SOLAR SYSTEM

Detailed explanation-1: -Saturn’s rings are thought to be pieces of comets, asteroids, or shattered moons that broke up before they reached the planet, torn apart by Saturn’s powerful gravity. They are made of billions of small chunks of ice and rock coated with other materials such as dust.

Detailed explanation-2: -Saturn is losing its rings due to what is being called ‘ring rain’. No, there is no mysterious rain chipping away at the rings. Saturn is itself attracting the ‘ring matter’ which is falling towards it from the ring and vapourising. In other words, Saturn is eating away its own rings!