An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...

Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn, while outside ... Space exploration is, after all, a form of “ground-truthing.” ...

Of all the planets in our solar system apart from Earth, Saturn tends to steal the show with its breathtaking rings, which have fascinated people for centuries.

However, for those outside of Europe, Africa, western Russia and eastern Greenland, the moon and Saturn still appeared close together all night, rising and setting around the same time.

Saturn’s other moons orbit over its equator ... that is more than 26 degrees askew from the ecliptic plane in which all the major planets orbit. (Earth has a 23-degree tilt.) ...

Saturn is perhaps the best-known example ... and colleagues to investigate whether moon rings could be stable at all. A 2022 study Sucerquia co-authored found that theoretically, isolated moons ...

Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune - and added rings to all of the moons of these planets. They then simulated how the rings would change over the course of a million years as they were influenced by the ...

Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn, while outside ... Space exploration is, after all, a form of “ground-truthing.” ...