Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...

Moving in some high-risk pathways between Saturn and its inner rings, it successfully got closer to the planet to fulfil its ...

Saturn's rings tilt out of view every fourteen to seventeen Earth years. In 2032, they will be at their best again during ...

Skywatchers will get a rare chance to see Saturn in its full glory, without chunks of ice and rock swarming around it.

The rings of Saturn will temporarily “disappear” this weekend, though most stargazers will be unlikely to see it. The rings ...

UNDATED (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - Skywatchers are in for a rare treat this weekend as Saturn's iconic rings will appear to ... who miss this celestial event, NASA predicts that the phenomenon ...

The rings, believed to be made up of rocky and icy chunks that could be as large as a house, help separate Saturn from other planets in our solar system. They’re also about to perform a vanishing ...

"Even the thickest estimates put the rings at 1 kilometer (about half a mile). Saturn's diameter is over 116,000 km, so comparatively that is VERY thin." According to NASA, Saturn's rings average ...

On March 23, however, the iconic rings are set to 'disappear'. This is due to the Earth’s orbit crossing the plane of the ...

Like Earth, Saturn’s axis is tilted, NASA explains ... (Photo by Space Frontiers/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) “The rings engage in sort of a planetary ‘sleight of hand,’ where, when ...