Planets don't get much more iconic than Saturn. But if you managed to see it through a backyard telescope right now, you wouldn't see its rings.
Once its rings vanish from sight in March 2025, Saturn will look like a pale yellow sphere through most telescopes.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) captured a rare planetary storm on Saturn’s equator in November 1990, soon after its ...
The Science Museum in London is closing its almost 40-year-old 'Exploring Space' gallery to establish a new 'Space' gallery ...
The storm spanned Saturn's entire equatorial region, with turbulent cloud masses and organised vortices visible across its ...
It's rare for any observatory to directly image a planet beyond our solar system, called an exoplanet, but the powerful James ...
Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...
Studying young gas giant exoplanets' compositions and orbits could help us better understand how our own solar system's gas ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...
Imagery of Saturn captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is superimposed over an image captured by Hubble. "Yellows ...
Titan was discovered during a ring-plane crossing, and so were 12 other moons . Saturn's rings will be edge-on twice in 2025, ...
There were theories, however, that Saturn’s rings were transient and could disappear within 50-to-200 million years, while ...