A stunning "parade of planets" will grace the night sky this week, with all seven of Earth's celestial neighbors joining the ...
Other images in the collection show imagined renderings captured by Cassini during its 22 orbits between Saturn and its rings, before plunging into the planet on its final mission in 2017. ( ...
Although NASA says these types of events are not especially rare, they’re still an excellent reason to go outside and do a ...
Saturn’s rings are an arresting sight even through modest telescopes. The planet is made mostly of hydrogen and helium whereas the rings are billions of pieces of mostly bright-white water ice ...
The simple answer is that Saturn’s rings do cast shadows on the planet’s surface! NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017, took the dramatic image of the rings ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The four planet-strong “planet parade” — mistakenly ...
Saturn can be spotted almost directly below Venus, but the ringed planet will become increasingly harder to see as the month goes on and it sinks lower in the sky each day after sunset.