Saturn’s rings will be edge-on twice in 2025, in March and November. From 2019 to 2023, Jupiter and Saturn were fighting for first place in the moon race. In 2019, Saturn surpassed Jupiter with ...

An optical illusion during Saturn's equinox is to blame for the rings disappearing from view briefly. The next time this is set to happen is May 6, 2025.

Space Saturn’s rings may be far older than we thought. The age of the rings that encircle Saturn is under dispute thanks to calculations that show they could have been formed billions – rather ...

And the event is relatively rare: Ring plane crossings — as the phenomenon is known — typically occur twice during the 29.4 years it takes Saturn to make one orbit around the sun.

Saturn's rings, perhaps the most defining part of the gas giant, are going to vanish by March 2025, according to Earth.com. But they aren't disintegrating, and it's nothing permanent.

By the time we lose Saturn to the Sun’s glare in February 2025, the rings will be less than 3° from edge-on. I’ll be most interested in knowing what you see or don’t see before this time.

Starting on Sunday, Saturn’s rings will seem to disappear for a few days. For the next several months, Simon said the rings will “remain very thin” to our eyes.

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 ...

Saturn's rings have gathered dust for no more than 400 million years — making them far younger than the 4.5-billion-year-old gas planet, according to a study published Friday in Science Advances.

This Jan. 2, 2010 image made available by NASA shows the planet Saturn, as seen from the Cassini spacecraft. On Monday, new research suggested that Saturn’s rings may be older than they look ...

Saturn's rings will disappear from view of ground-based telescopes in 2025. Here's why. Every 13-15 years, Saturn is angled in a way in which the edge of its thin rings are oriented toward Earth ...