Saturn’s apparent loss of its rings is due to the planets becoming perpendicular to each other, putting the rings directly on Earth’s plane. Saturn is tilled 26.73 degrees from vertical as it ...

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 ...

The rare phenomenon will start on Sunday, March 23, at 12:04 p.m. EDT (9:34 pm in India) and extend for a few days.

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 planets in our solar system. They’re also about to perform a ...

The iconic rings of Saturn have disappeared but don’t worry, they haven’t gone anywhere. This week, a rare cosmic event called a "ring plane crossing" has made the planet's rings to vanish from ...

During the next ring plane crossing, astronomers will be able to better a good look at Saturn's many moons. As far as planets go, they don't get much more iconic than Saturn: a huge golden ball ...

Imagine Earth adorned with rings like Saturn; what stunning visual effects and gravitational influences would occur?

The thin, outermost ring in the photo is composed of particles shepherded by the gravity of two moons orbiting around it.

Sébastien Voltmer captured an edge-on view of Saturn without its rings. This alignment occurred while Saturn was very close ...

Saturn’s iconic rings will temporarily vanish from view ... about 30 feet thick but stretch up to 175,000 miles from the planet, their ultra-thin profile makes them difficult to detect when ...

Earlier this week, Saturn gained a whopping 128 new official moons, as the International Astronomical Union recognised ...

No spacecraft has ever explored this part of Saturn before, and Cassini was moving at about 77,000 miles per hour as it shot between the large planet and its rings. If even a relatively small ...