Scientists say that Saturn's rings are falling in on the planet as icy rain due to the gas giant's intense gravity. Saturn's rings are made of pieces of comets, asteroids or moons.

First-magnitude Saturn is visible to the naked eye, but 8th-magnitude Neptune is not. You’ll need binoculars or a telescope to find the distant ice giant, located 1.1° north of the ringed planet.

On Sunday night, Saturn will be closer to Earth than at any other point during the year. The American Museum of Natural History's Jackie Faherty explains how people can view this phenomenon.

ON July 1, after observing Jupiter for some time, I directed my 10-inch reflector to Saturn, and found the details sharply defined. The dusky north polar cap was very distinct, and so was the dark ...

Images of the area of the microlensing event, indicated by perpendicular white lines, years before the event (a), shortly after peak magnification of the background star in 2020 (b) and in 2023 ...

Saturn is the sixth planet in the solar system and is about 910 million miles from the sun. It's the second-largest planet and is approximately 10 times larger than Earth .

Saturn’s icy rings are probably heating its atmosphere, giving it an ultraviolet glow. Water ice falling into the planet’s upper atmosphere may create an excess UV emission ...

New research suggests that Saturn's rings may be older than they look—possibly as old as the planet. Instead of being a youthful 400 million years old as commonly thought, the icy, shimmering ...

The Cassini spacecraft that orbited Saturn in 2004-2017 found the planet’s rings to have very little dirt. This was unusual — and the start of a mystery about the rings’ age April 10, 2025 e ...