Galileo was the first person to observe the rings of Saturn. He spent hour after hour on painstaking drawings of the Moon through its phases, observed Venus and Mars, and even made sketches of ...

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 ...

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.

While Saturn’s rings will fade from view in March, by November 2025, they will return more spectacular than ever. Over the following years, Earth’s perspective will gradually shift, ...

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, which are believed to be made of broken bits of comets, asteroids and shattered moons, extends up to 175,000 miles from the planet — but their vertical height is only about 30 ...

This Aug. 22, 2009 image made available by NASA shows a section of Saturn's rings, as seen from the Cassini spacecraft. The icy rings could be around 4.5 billion years old just like Saturn, a ...

Like Earth, Saturn’s axis is tilted, NASA explains.Saturn is transitioning, causing its tilt to shift. This will alter our view of the planet as Earth crosses its ring plane.