The rings, believed to be made up of rocky and icy chunks that could be as large as a house, help separate Saturn from other ...

Earth's passage through the plane of Saturn's rings, occurring roughly every 15 years, causes the rings to appear nearly edge-on. The next such event in March 2025 will be poorly observable due to ...

Saturn's iconic rings will seemingly "disappear" from view this weekend as they align edge-on with Earth for the first time since 2009. Every 13 to 15 years, the planet's rings align perfectly with ...

Saturn’s iconic rings will seemingly vanish from view on Sunday, March 23. The gas giant’s rings have been gradually tilting edge-on, as seen from Earth, for the past seven years, and this weekend, ...

Saturn will appear in the predawn sky in April, although its rings will barely be visible. Credit: Creators.com illustration Saturn is everyone’s favorite planet, it seems. Through a telescope those ...

Jupiter and Saturn look serene through a backyard telescope, but beneath and around their clouds, both worlds are in dramatic ...

In November 2024 I was interviewed for a marvelous NPR podcast called Living On Earth about my latest popular science book, Under Alien Skies. While prepping for the show, one of the producers asked ...

Saturn takes about 29.4 Earth years to complete one orbit of our home star, according to NASA. As it does, the second largest planet in our solar system experiences seasons due to the axis of rotation ...

On Sunday afternoon, Saturn’s iconic rings vanished from our skies. Don’t worry—the planet’s rings are still intact. But from Earth’s vantage point, a temporary phenomenon called a “ring plane ...

Swirling around the planet’s equator, the rings of Saturn are a dead giveaway that the planet is spinning at a tilt. The belted giant rotates at a 26.7-degree angle relative to the plane in which it ...