If Saturn’s orbit was circular, this edge-on state would occur every 14.7 years. However, Saturn whips through the closer part of its orbit a fair bit faster than the slow march further from the ...

The iconic rings of Saturn have disappeared but don’t worry, they haven’t gone anywhere. This week, a rare cosmic event called a "ring plane crossing" has made the planet's rings to vanish from ...

The rare phenomenon will start on Sunday, March 23, at 12:04 p.m. EDT (9:34 pm in India) and extend for a few days.

Sébastien Voltmer captured an edge-on view of Saturn without its rings. This alignment occurred while Saturn was very close to the sun.

A ring plane crossing happens every 13 to 15 years and occurs when Saturn's angle of tilt toward Earth places the rings edge-on from our perspective. Saturn's rings will return to view from Earth ...

Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life.

"As Saturn and the Earth travel around the sun, we will periodically be in a position where those rings are seen edge on," explains Dr. Shannon Schmoll, director of the Abrams Planetarium at ...

“Normally you see the rings around Saturn, but when you have an edge-on view, it looks like a hair-thin line of light just cutting across.” Need a visual guide? “The best way to illustrate ...

Things that would otherwise be obscured can be spotted when the rings are edge-on - several of Saturn’s moons have been discovered this way." March 23 will see Saturn sitting very closely to the ...

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