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

Listen, we know this has already been a disorientating year so far, but Saturn is about to lose its iconic rings. Well, sort of. Saturn’s rings will be impossible to see from Earth as of March ...

Cassini shot the gap and lived to tell the tale. The Saturn-exploring spacecraft managed to successfully fly through the 1,500 mile gap between Saturn and its rings and survive seemingly unscathed.

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.

On April 26, NASA's Cassini spacecraft shot between Saturn and its innermost ring, going where no human-made object has gone before. Cassini has already made some new discoveries thanks to its ...

Saturn is transitioning, causing its tilt to shift. This will alter our view of the planet as Earth crosses its ring plane. This is where the disappearance comes in. An enhanced colour image of ...

Saturn will appear in the predawn sky in April, although its rings will barely be visible. Credit: Creators.com illustration Saturn is everyone’s favorite planet, it seems. Through a telescope ...

The thin, outermost ring in the photo is composed of particles shepherded by the gravity of two moons orbiting around it.

Later observers have been deceived in the same way. Saturn surrounded by its rings appeared to Scheiner and Hevel, in 1614, as a disk with two projecting ears. The Jesuit priest Eustachius de ...

How many moons it has: At least 274 known moons, with more likely to be discovered With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from ...