Saturn's famous rings are about to disappear. No, not literally – that isn't projected to happen for hundreds of millions of years. But for astronomers and stargazers using ground-based telescopes, ...

Saturn's rings have disappeared from view, as seen from Earth, due to a phenomenon known as a ring plane crossing. A ring plane crossing happens every 13 to 15 years and occurs when Saturn's angle of ...

Skywatchers will get a rare chance to see Saturn in its full glory, without chunks of ice and rock swarming around it. Reading time 2 minutes Saturn will temporarily lose its iconic look from our ...

Research suggests that Saturn's rings don’t end where the eye expects - specks of ring material seem to float above and below ...

(NEXSTAR) — The sky has already graced us with a total lunar eclipse and a rare planetary alignment, but we’ll soon have the chance to witness another peculiar celestial event: the disappearance of ...

Saturn is about to make its closest approach to Earth, and that means you might be able to see its rings — if you have a telescope, that is. Rain is in the forecast for Louisville on Sunday, which ...

Saturn takes about 29.4 Earth years to complete one orbit of our home star, according to NASA. As it does, the second largest planet in our solar system experiences seasons due to the axis of rotation ...

I recently noticed something odd about Saturn while admiring it near brilliant Venus in the southwestern night sky. Any object close to our evil twin sister planet will look somewhat dull in ...

From the surface, Earth looks like a relatively ordinary rocky planet, wrapped in clouds and a thin blue atmosphere. A new ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. If you’ve never looked at Saturn and its rings through a ...

On Dec. 25 and 26, a waxing crescent moon will appear close to Saturn in the night sky after sunset, making a beautiful ...