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 ...

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.

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: Space.com | Science: Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC) / Animation: Joseph DePasquale (STScI) ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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

These beautiful rings have a turbulent history, and unless they are somehow replenished, they will be gobbled up by Saturn. This article was originally published on The Conversation by Gareth ...

Artist rendering of Jupiter with rings that rival Saturn’s. Stephen Kane/UCR To understand Jupiter and the matter orbiting it better, Kane and colleague Zhexing Li modeled Jupiter’s four ...