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

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

If you were to pick Saturn out of a lineup you’d probably recognize it by its iconic rings. They’re the biggest, brightest rings in our solar system. Extending over 280,000 km from the planet ...

Planets don't get much more iconic than Saturn. But if you managed to see it through a backyard telescope right now, you ...

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 ...

As both planets complete their solar orbit, the way Saturn's rings look from Earth slowly changes. When Saturn's equator is directly aligned with the Sun, sunlight strikes its rings edge-on ...

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 ...

Saturn's moon Rhea looms over a smaller and more distant Epimetheus against a striking background of planet and rings. The two moons aren't actually close to each other. Photograph by NASA/JPL ...

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 ...