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

If you were to pick Saturn out of a lineup you’d probably recognize it by its iconic rings. They’re the biggest, brightest rings in our solar system. Extending over 280,000 km from the planet ...

Do astronomers have any estimates of when Saturn's rings will disappear? Doug Kaupa Council Bluffs, Iowa All four of the solar system's giant planets have ring systems. The rings of Jupiter ...

UPDATE, 1:42pm EST: Rings of Saturn and their recording engineer have both issued official statements refuting the claim that the album was recorded at half speed. Read those here. Bay Area tech-death ...

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 ...

Ex-Rings of Saturn drummer Brent Silletto, who is smack-dab in the middle of the controversy that unfolded yesterday (Part 1, Part 2) in which a man named Brian Shields accused the band of recording ...

The director of the Lick Observatory has announced by telegraph that certain “knots” appear on Saturn's rings when they are viewed at the present time with the great 36-inch telescope.

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 ...

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

Hubble's ultra-sharp vision reveals a ... Using Eclipses to Calculate the Transparency of Saturn's Rings Nov. 14, 2023 — A student has measured the optical depth of Saturn's rings using a new ...

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?