This unusual event happens when Saturn’s rings appear edge-on to Earth, making them almost invisible. Despite their massive size—spanning over 175,000 miles—the rings are incredibly thin, ...

Saturn's rings, perhaps the most defining part of the gas giant, are going to vanish by March 2025, according to Earth.com. But they aren't disintegrating, and it's nothing permanent.

A photo of Saturn taken by the Hubble Telescope last October. Small dark marks called ring spokes are visible on the planet's left side, just inside the widest black band of space between rings.

While Saturn’s rings may seem timeless and eternal, they are actually relatively young in cosmic terms, with some experts estimating that they could be only 100 million years old.

Saturn’s rings are slowly disappearing. The rings will vanish in a few hundred million years as icy material from them rains down on the planet, scientists predict.

Here's what to know about when and why Saturn's rings regularly disappear from our view, and when we'll see them again. Uranus: Voyager 2 is the only craft to visit Uranus.

Starting on Sunday, Saturn’s rings will seem to disappear for a few days. For the next several months, Simon said the rings will “remain very thin” to our eyes.

Altogether, this ice weighs about half as much as Saturn’s moon Mimas and stretches nearly 175,000 miles from the planet’s surface. Kempf added that for most of the 20th Century, scientists assumed ...

Saturn’s rings are made of ice particles that range from the size of sand grains to boulders. The ring system extends up to 175,000 miles (282,000 kilometers) from the planet. ...

The rings, believed to be made up of rocky and icy chunks that could be as large as a house, help separate Saturn from other planets in our solar system. They’re also about to perform a ...

Saturn’s rings extend out from the planet’s equator starting 7,000 kilometers from the cloud layers and going all the way out to 80,000 kilometers. They are almost entirely made of water ice, which is ...