Time is running out for skywatchers to get a view of Saturn's rings. The planet's rings will temporarily drop out of the night sky view from Earth during parts of the spring and, again, in the fall of ...

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, ...

UPDATE: The photos of Earth from Saturn by Cassini and from Mercury by Messenger were released Monday (July 22). See the amazing photos here. A distant spacecraft charged with studying the Saturn ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — While the seasons will soon begin to change, there are still a couple of opportunities for stargazers to enjoy sights in the summer sky before the onset of astronomical autumn on ...

Although the rings span more than 2,80,000 kilometres in diameter, their vertical thickness is barely tens of metres.

One of the year’s must-see stargazing events is underway, giving us an incredible look at one of our solar system’s outer planets. Once a year, Earth passes in between the sun and Saturn, which brings ...