People thinks over Saturn’s awe-inspiring system of rings that enclose the gas giant to be the most fascinating and iconic ...

Roughly every 15 years, Earth passes through the plane of Saturn's rings, causing them to nearly disappear from view - not to ...

When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

the present edge-on alignment of the rings can only occur once every 15 years. Next March the Earth will also pass through the plane of Saturn’s ring system. At that time, for a few days ...

The outer edge ef the exterior ring is about 45,000 miles distant from the surface of the planet. This remarkable series of rings, which surrounds Saturn as the brim of a hat surrounds the wearer ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn.

Our views of several planets improve this month, most notably that of Jupiter, which approaches its closet approach to Earth ...

Jupiter, which currently gleams from within the sparkling winter constellation Taurus, reaches opposition with the sun just a ...

Saturn's rings are only about 10 metres thick from top to bottom, so they're really thin. So if you imagine holding a piece of paper and looking at it edge on it's really thin but if you tilt it you ...

The angle of Saturn’s rings changes relative to us over the course of its 29.4-year orbit. That means that every 14-16 years the rings are edge-on, to the point of being barely visible ...

It can be fascinating to watch the changing views of celestial objects over the seasons, such as Saturn, whose rings will look their best in October, then almost disappear at winter’s end.