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 ...

Researchers have called for the public's help after an image appears to show an unidentified object slamming into Saturn.

Starting on Sunday, Saturn’s rings will seem to disappear for a few days. For the next several months, Simon said the rings will “remain very thin” to our eyes.

Saturn’s rings display their subtle colors in this view captured on Aug. 22, 2009, by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. ... Let’s get real, shall we? The introduction of AI is already chaotic.

The plane crossing will begin at around 12:04 p.m. ET on Sunday, according to in-the-sky.org.Saturn’s rings won’t come into full view from Earth for a few months, and we may not get to see ...

Saturn's iconic rings will seemingly "disappear" from view this weekend as they align edge-on with Earth for the first time since 2009. Skip to main content. Open menu Close menu.

Saturn’s bands will make a comeback tour after March 2025, before disappearing once again in November 2025. The planet has seven distinct rings comprised of ice, rocky debris and dust.

Saturn’s rings stretch an incredible 175,000 miles (282,000 kilometers) ... Its rings are young and fleeting. In a very real sense, we’re lucky to be around to see them at all.

Saturn’s rings are no more than a few hundred million years old and will only exist as they are today for another few hundred million years. Skip to content.

Instead of being a youthful 400 million years old as commonly thought, the icy, shimmering rings could be around 4.5 billion years old just like Saturn, a Japanese-led team reported Monday.

Starting on Sunday, Saturn’s rings will seem to disappear for a few days. For the next several months, Simon said the rings will “remain very thin” to our eyes.