Saturn is usually very easy to distinguish from the other planets or moderately bright stars by the presence of rings, visible in small telescopes and hinted at through an elongated shape in ...

(NEXSTAR) — The sky has already graced us with a total lunar eclipse and a rare planetary alignment, but we’ll soon have the chance to witness another peculiar celestial event: the ...

Left to right: Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter show off their rings for various NASA spacecraft. Whether we can see planetary rings from Earth depends on what they're made of. | Credit: NASA ...

This is a world of unique complexity, made up of a central body and its satellites, not to mention the famous ring surrounding the planet ... the US-European probe Cassini-Huygens. Classifying ...