An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

Of all the planets in our solar system apart from Earth, Saturn tends to steal the show with its breathtaking rings, which have fascinated people for centuries.

ON a memorable evening in the year 1610 Galileo sat in the tower of his observatory in Florence, and gazed through his newly-invented “perspective glass” at Saturn, which was then regarded as ...

Four of our planets have rings, but Saturn's are enormous and complex, in a class of their own. Just after the turn of the 17th century, Galileo Galilei designed and built the first telescope ...

“Saturn is again something which Galileo looked at,” Brian says. “He described it as a planet with ears. Now, obviously he didn't believe they were physical ears. But he couldn't understand ...

Saturn has been playing second fiddle to Mars all year, but in June the red planet fades while the ringed planet reaches its pinnacle. Saturn’s rings are now very favorably tilted for ...

Notably, Galileo Galilei's early telescopic observations in the 1610s couldn't resolve Saturn's rings. It was only in 1655, thanks to Christiaan Huygens, that the detached rings were identified.