Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life.

(NEXSTAR) — The sky has already graced us with a total lunar eclipse and a rare planetary alignment, but we’ll soon have the chance to witness another peculiar celestial event: the ...

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.

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 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 ...

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

Saturn is tilted at 26.73 degrees on its orbit, while Earth is very close to that at a 23.5-degree tilt. When the two planets line up just right, the rings of Saturn are almost entirely horizontal ...

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 ...

When a planet's orbit brings it between Earth and a distant star, it's more than just a cosmic game of hide and seek. It's an ...

The morning of April 24 will give rise to a striking mini-planetary parade, as Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Neptune, and Earth's ...

According to NASA, the planetary phenomenon will be clearest about 45 minutes before sunrise, low in the eastern sky and appearing near the moon. Venus and Saturn will be the easiest to spot — but for ...