On July 30, 1610, the famous astronomer Galileo Galilei became the first to observe rings around the planet Saturn. Shortly after the telescope was invented in 1608, Galileo peered out into the ...

Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky Monday, appearing closer to one another than they have since Galileo's time in the 17th century.

The Galileo images also revealed a second spiral, which was calculated to have originated in 1990. Images taken by New Horizons in 2007, when the spacecraft flew by Jupiter on its way to Pluto ...

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was the first to view the rings in 1610 although what he saw through his crude telescope left him completely baffled; his crude, imperfect "optick tube" revealed Saturn ...

Saturn is now at its best in our late-winter sky. It appears below and to the left of the conspicuous "sickle" or backwards question-mark pattern of stars marking the head and mane of the ...

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 ...

New observations by the international Cassini spacecraft reveal that Saturn’s trademark shimmering rings, which have dazzled astronomers since Galileo’s time, have dramatically changed over ...

In 1610 Galileo pointed his crude spyglass at Saturn and was dumbfounded by what he saw: “The planet Saturn is not alone, but is composed of three, which almost touch one another and never move nor ...

What Galileo saw through his crude telescope left him completely baffled, as Saturn appeared to him not to have rings but rather two smaller bodies flanking it on either side. He couldn't make them ...

Saturn's spectacular rings are just 400 million years old - less than a tenth the age of the planet, according to new research. They could be just 400million years old.

The star of the month for May is the spectacular planet Saturn. Well placed for long views in any telescope on warm nights, Saturn never leaves anyone disappointed. Then, at month’s end, three ...