Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...

Paper is an apt analogy here because Saturn's rings are very thin. According to NASA, Saturn's rings average about 30 feet in ...

Quantitatively upstaging Earth’s guest appearance of a second moon this fall, a recent study found that Saturn has 128 new ...

For a few days starting this weekend, Saturn’s iconic rings will vanish from the Earth’s point of view. The phenomenon occurs every 15 years. Host Marco Werman speaks with Larry Esposito, a professor ...

Saturn's renowned rings have seemingly "disappeared" from view starting this week. This rare planetary event has happened as ...

A rare celestial event will make Saturn’s rings appear to disappear this weekend as Earth crosses their plane. This optical ...

The rings of Saturn will temporarily “disappear” this weekend, though most stargazers will be unlikely to see it. The rings are not actually going away, but will be imperceptible ...

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

Saturn now leads the solar system with 274 known moons. Scientists say many moons formed from past collisions.

Out past Neptune are countless small icy and rocky bodies called Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs), and many of these have moons ...

The newly discovered moons of Saturn are classified as “irregular moons,” referring to objects orbiting giant planets on inclined, highly elliptical and retrograde orbits. “All of these ...

It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...