New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

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 ...

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

One of the highlights to be found in this month’s Colorado sky is the golden-hued planet Saturn which can be seen forming an ...

Scientists observed that all examined craters are situated within 30 degrees of the equator. This concentrated impact area, ...

Many people have purchased a backyard telescope to look at Saturn and its spectacular ring pattern. According to NASA, you should be able to see Saturn's bright moon Titan and its rings through ...

I WRITE to call the attention of observers to the present appearance of the inner dusky ring of Saturn. Although the ring is not very open, only permitting that portion near the ends to be seen on ...

l.-SATURN AND ITS RINGS, AS DRAWN IN 1894 BY LEO BRENNER, DIRECTOR OF THE MANORA OBSERVATORY AT LUSSINPICCOLO. 1. Encke's line. 2. Casf.lini's division. 3. The gauze or crape ring. correctly as ...

But the ring may have exacerbated things ... In any case, the idea that our planet once sported a Saturn-like accessory is a reminder that the cosmos is full of surprises — and Earth has ...

Approximately 466 million years ago, Earth might have exhibited a spectacular ring arrangement resembling Saturn’s. Recent research featured in Earth and Planetary Science Letters uncovers ...

The eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Mercury is closest to the Sun. Neptune is the farthest. Jupiter: This planet has a faint ring system composed ...