It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to monitor the planet post-Cassini mission. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...

A new discovery, made at the University of Tokyo's School of Science and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, is reshaping our understanding of the history of this planet with its famous rings.

An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

SATURN'S RINGS AS THEY WOULD APPEAR TO AN OBSERVER ... which is separated by an interval of 1,450 miles known as “Cassini's division,” from the outer very bright ring, the breadth of which ...

September opens with Venus hosting winter constellations in the eastern predawn sky. West of the planet, the bright star Procyon, in Canis Minor, the little dog, rises at almost the same time as ...

But still, it just seemed especially dim. Then I remembered: Saturn’s brilliant rings are disappearing—at least they are from our perspective here on Earth. The normally broad rings presently ...

At the moment this image was captured, the probe was approximately 3 miles (5 km) above Saturn's largest moon. The probe's descent from its parent spacecraft, NASA's Cassini, took approximately 2. ...

The biggest stories of the day delivered to your inbox.

SATURN'S iconic rings are set to disappear in weeks, and won't come back into full view until 2032 The vanishing act is all down to an optical illusion due to Saturn's tilt, which will turn the ...

Saturn’s iconic rings are vanishing this year and won’t be visible again until 2028. Saturn is famed for its icy rings, but an astrophysicist warns they will disappear from Earth’s view next ...