Saturn's famous rings are ... reappear to ground observers here on Earth. Here's what to know about when and why Saturn's rings regularly disappear from our view, and when we'll see them again.

Saturn's iconic ring system will disappear, albeit temporarily, on March 23—a preview of its fate in 100 million years.

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft took the first photos of rings around Jupiter. This was the first time anyone had seen Jupiter’s rings. Because the rings are so thin and faint, it's extremely difficult to ...

This, of course, isn’t the first ringed planet we’ve seen, as planets in our main solar system have rings. But the fact that the material within this ring hasn’t followed our known ...

A visible line of planets has ... it is rare to have an opportunity to observe multiple planets simultaneously without the need for instruments like ground telescopes. Such an event is also ...

Another finding was how dramatically the planets varied in brightness over just three years. The team discovered that PDS 70 ...

The Magellan Adaptive Optics Xtreme (MagAO-X) has provided some of the clearest images ever taken of planets forming around a ...

Since Galileo first laid telescope-enhanced eyes on Jupiter, scientists have continued to study the curious world from both the ground and ... dusty rings. Planet Jupiter, explained And when ...

Saturn’s rings are an arresting sight even through modest telescopes. The planet is made mostly of hydrogen and helium whereas the rings are billions of pieces of mostly bright-white water ice ...