Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...
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.
The sky has already graced us with a total lunar eclipse and a rare planetary alignment, but we’ll soon have the chance to ...
Planets don't get much more iconic than Saturn. But if you managed to see it through a backyard telescope right now, you wouldn't see its rings.
As it does, the second largest planet in our solar system experiences seasons due to ... As both planets complete their solar orbit, the way Saturn's rings look from Earth slowly changes.
This, actually, is weird. Of the eight planets in the Solar System, half have rings of dust and ice orbiting their equator. Mars is thought to have once had a ring. Some of the dwarf planets have ...