In three months, Saturn's iconic, icy rings will appear to disappear, giving you a preview of what the planet could look like 100 million to 300 million years from now.. On March 23, an optical ...

This simulation demonstrates the 29.5-year orbital period of Saturn, as viewed from Earth. The ring system lies directly above Saturn’s equator, so both sides of its disk are visible from Earth during ...

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 ...

James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

There will be several chances to see the shadow of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, pass across the ringed planet's Earth-facing ...

By the time we lose Saturn to the Sun’s glare in February 2025, the rings will be less than 3° from edge-on. I’ll be most interested in knowing what you see or don’t see before this time.

Saturn’s rings are made up of small particles of ice, forming ring shapes that reach 175,000 miles away from the planet. ... But scientists hadn’t been sure whether the effect was real, ...

Science | September 2019. Saturn Could Lose Its Rings in Less Than 100 Million Years. Recent discoveries suggest that the planet’s distinctive feature may be gone in the cosmic blink of an eye ...

One of Saturn's most photogenic moons gets its closeup in a new photo taken by the Cassini spacecraft. The image, released by NASA this week, was taken by the spacecraft on Oct. 23, when it was ...

PHILADELPHIA - After seven years of traveling through the solar system, the Saturn-bound spacecraft Cassini will finally reach one of the Saturnian moons - an odd ball called Phoebe.

NASA previously predicted that our crossing of Saturn’s ring-plane will be even better in 2038-39 when Earth undergoes a triple passage and gives us three chances to see a seemingly ringless ...