“Unfortunately, Saturn will be very close to the Sun in the sky in March, so it will be difficult to catch this from small telescopes,” she said. “However, because the Earth’s orbit is ...

But when NASA’s Cassini spacecraft visited Saturn in 2004, it found that the rings appeared remarkably free of contamination from small space rocks, known as cosmic dust. This pristine ...

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

Saturn's rings consist of ice, dust, and rocks, with particles varying in size from small grains to large boulders. Saturn's rings are divided into several main groups, each named in alphabetical ...

If you were to pick Saturn out of a lineup you’d probably recognize it by its iconic rings. They’re the biggest, brightest rings in our solar system. Extending over 280,000 km from the planet ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Saturn is already visible in the post-sunset night sky, but it will reach its annual opposition on September 7-8, 2024.

It will then emerge as a bright “morning star” before sunrise. Only a small telescope will reveal Saturn’s rings, but 2025 is not the best year to look at them. Since Saturn rotates on an ...

An curved arrow pointing right. It's easy to forget how small our Earth is within the known universe. These to-scale visuals will help to keep that in perspective. Produced by Jacqui Frank Follow ...