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 ...

Skywatchers will get a rare chance to see Saturn in its full glory, without chunks of ice and rock swarming around it.

Saturn's rings tilt out of view every fourteen to seventeen Earth years. In 2032, they will be at their best again during ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

Even more exciting, the model suggests that some Earth-like planets could form in the habitable zone—the region around a star ...

Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the planet with the most moons with 274.The International ...

Our current view of Saturn means we're looking at the gas giant's famous rings edge on, making it impossible for telescopes on Earth to see them. This phenomenon is called a "ring plane crossing ...

The planets themselves (not to scale) have thin rings of plasma heated to around 14,000 degrees Fahrenheit, which glow at the red emission line of H-alpha light. With a sun more than 4.5 billion ...

When you think of Saturn, you probably picture the planet with its iconic rings around it. The amazing rings are made up of lots of particles of different sizes, including water, ice and dust.

Astronomers have discovered that the flattened clouds of gas and dust around ... of planets was biased." The team also found that most of the observed disks showed neither gaps nor rings.