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

Beyond the idea that they're no older than Saturn itself, there's next to no consensus on how the rings of Saturn came to be. What we do know is that the shape and destiny of Saturn's rings are ...

“When we have these ring plane crossings, the light that normally reflects off Saturn’s rings is no longer glaring back toward Earth,” he said. “That means you can detect a lot more of the ...

Early in October this year, Saturn presented the strange appearance of being entirely without rings, even when viewed in the most powerful of telescopes. No great catastrophe had happened on the ...

Credit: Mashable "No spacecraft has ever been this close to Saturn before. We could only rely on predictions, based on our experience with Saturn's other rings, of what we thought this gap between ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Will Saturn's rings return? Wayne Schlingman, PhD, director of the Arne Slettebak Planetarium at The Ohio State University, preps us for Saturn's equinox. If you look in the sky and notice Saturn’s ...

March has provided astronomy fans across the globe with plenty to appreciate and there is still a lot to keep an eye out for. Cosmic events including a partial lunar eclipse and dazzling planets ...

The small moon, which is known as Saturn's "Death Star" moon because of its distinctive crater (not visible in the above image), can be seen floating above the planet's rings. SEE ALSO ...