Uncover the mystery behind Saturn’s iconic rings. ExtremeTech explains their origins and the science of our solar system. Dive into the cosmos today!

In 1610, Galileo Galilei was the first to observe the rings, though his telescope was too crude to identify them as actual rings. He described them as "Saturn's ears" since they looked like two ...

An amazing occurrence in space is set to happen! Saturn rings will disappear very soon. Now, astronomers are busy capturing this celestial view before it fades from view within 18 months.

Galileo hooks into the model itself to get visibility into exactly what those probabilities are and then provides additional metrics.

Though Saturn's rings will be visible again from Earth after March 2025, they'll temporarily disappear from view again in November when they appear to us at their narrowest.

Galileo was the first person to observe the rings of Saturn. He spent hour after hour on painstaking drawings of the Moon through its phases, observed Venus and Mars, and even made sketches of ...

In Bucktown, Trap Door Theatre’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo is brave, chaotic, and full of spectacle. Brecht’s 1938 play (with the full name Life of Galileo), written originally in German ...

Saturn in Aries 2025: these zodiac signs will be most affected by this new cycle and the daddy planet moving into the hellfires of Aries.

Image of Saturn in Cassini spacecraft's 'final moments' isn't what it seems NASA published thousands of photographs of Saturn taken by the now-defunct satellite.

The rings of Saturn could be much older than previously thought and may have formed around the same time as the planet, according to a modelling study. But not all astronomers are convinced, and a ...

Galileo is a key component of mass-market applications for such areas as transport, agriculture and timing but also for security-critical applications, such as health services, emergency and rescue ...