Composite images of Saturn’s rings, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, have revealed mysterious color variations that hint that the rings could be made of materials from the outer solar system.

These are the highest-resolution color images of any part of Saturn’s rings, to date, showing a portion of the inner-central part of the planet’s B Ring. The view is a mosaic of two images that show a ...

Storms in space can take many forms. From Jupiter's planet-sized cyclones to Earth's spinning hurricanes, our solar system is filled with raging tempests of all shapes and sizes. But perhaps the most ...

Saturn reached opposition on August 14, 2022, presenting an optimal viewing opportunity of its northern rings, which are currently 14° open. This is the best viewing opportunity until 2027. The rings' ...

Saturn’s rings are one of the most striking celestial features in our solar system. The Pioneer and Voyager probes gave us our first close-up look. More recently, NASA’s Cassini mission spent more ...

Saturn’s rings might have formed while trilobites scuttled about on Earth. Space dust has been accumulating on the icy halos for no more than 400 million years, researchers report in the May 12 ...

Saturn's many rings are disappearing, and in 2025, the rings won't be visible from Earth, at least temporarily. Saturn's ring system extends up to 175,000 miles from the surface of the planet making ...

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, ...

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Many dream of what they would do had they a time machine. Some would travel 100 million years back in time, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Not many, though, would think of taking a telescope with ...