Saturn’s rings will be edge on to the Earth late this month, making them effectively impossible to see, at least with backyard equipment. However, it will be hard to witness it, because Saturn ...

Saturn’s rings, although vast and beautiful, are surprisingly thin—only about 30 feet thick, despite their enormous diameter. This edge-on view, where we see the rings from the side, reduces ...

The rings of Saturn are one of the most beautiful sights in our solar system, and they’re visible from Earth with a telescope. Well, for now that is.

Though Saturn is famous for its rings, all of the other giant planets — including Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune — have ring systems. But Saturn stands out for having beautiful yellow and gold ...

Saturn's beautiful rings are made of icy bits of rock and dust. Scientists think the rings formed when asteroids, comets and pieces of moons shattered into bits under the force of Saturn's gravity.

Saturn's beautiful system of rings will completely disappear over the next 300,000 years, but over the next two years we're going to get a preview of this thanks to a relatively rare celestial event.

The vanishing act is due to Saturn's orbital dynamics and the tilt of the planet's rings. In August, during opposition, the tilt angle was about 9 degrees, offering a beautiful view of the rings.

Saturn is famed for its beautiful rings, but these rings are something of a puzzle to astronomers.Originally, it was thought that they must have formed around the same time as the planet, over 4 ...

Saturn is famous for its beautiful rings, but these rings have a strange feature: spokes that appear intermittently. Now Hubble is on the case.

When we picture Saturn, we picture its rings. But those big, beautiful rings might not always be there. A trio of new studies show that the planet’s legendary adornments are gradually falling ...

Although Saturn's rings look as orderly as clean strokes of paint, these whirls of snow, ice chunks, and dirt may constitute the most complex and mysterious structure in our solar system.Measuring 175 ...

The research in The Astrophysical Journal suggests that two giant moons colliding could have been the start of Saturn’s beautiful and iconic rings.