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

Saturn is a planet widely recognisable for its iconic rings but a new study suggests Earth may also have had a similar ring system over 50 million years ago. As part of the research, 21 asteroid ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

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.

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

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...

The event will be held on an artificial island in Osaka Bay that has been developed to welcome some 28 million visitors In ...

Saturn's rings tilt out of view every fourteen to seventeen Earth years. In 2032, they will be at their best again during their period of maximum tilt as seen from Earth. Saturn's iconic rings ...

The fluffy ring is made up of cumulus clouds that have been sculpted into a Rayleigh-Benard convection cell — a meteorological phenomenon powered by the rising and falling of air that's been ...

Ask almost anyone which planet has rings around it, and you’ll get the answer “Saturn”, especially if they’ve ever viewed it through a telescope. But not many people know that the other gas giants in ...

Astronomers have been fascinated by Saturn's magnificent rings since Galileo peered through his telescope in 1610 and spotted bulges either side of the planet. He suspected they were moons but ...

The sixth planet from the Sun now has a grand total of 274 moons ... and some during what are called “ring-plane crossings”. A ring-crossing is where Saturn’s rings seem to disappear ...