New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

“They literally almost disappear,” says Sean Walker, an associate editor at Sky & Telescope, to Denise Chow at NBC News. “Normally you see the rings around Saturn, but when you have an edge ...

Saturn’s rings will not be visible from Earth this weekend. Leo Viktorov – stock.adobe.com “They literally almost disappear,” Sean Walker, an associate editor at Sky & Telescope ...

Between these two phases, however, is when the rings vanish from our view. Using a powerful telescope, one could spot a very thin line going around the middle of Saturn. The plane crossing will ...

It's not every day that a prominent feature of our solar system disappears, but that's precisely what will happen with Saturn. Over the weekend, Saturn's gorgeous rings will nearly vanish from sight.

Our current view of Saturn means we're looking at the gas giant's famous rings edge on, making it impossible for telescopes on Earth to see them. This phenomenon is called a "ring plane crossing ...

In 2009, NASA launched the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE mission, to make infrared observations. This was the latest in a line of space-based, infrared observatories, and it cost about ...