Scientists observed that all examined craters are situated within 30 degrees of the equator. This concentrated impact area, ...

People thinks over Saturn’s awe-inspiring system of rings that enclose the gas giant to be the most fascinating and iconic ...

When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

Back then, those strange invertebrates might have been able to look up through the nighttime shallows and see the glow of Earth’s very own ring, which may have been something like Saturn’s.

Its mass is 93 times that of the earth, and Jupiter alone ... The series of nearly concentric rings that encircle Saturn in the equatorial plane appears like a survival of primordial conditions.

But the gas giant, mostly known for its spectacular rings ... if Saturn wants to hang with its fellow gas giants and ice giants. In fact, even smaller terrestrial planets like Earth and Mars ...

As result, the rings appear as a gossamer-like needle thrust through ... Next March the Earth will also pass through the plane of Saturn’s ring system. At that time, for a few days, Saturn ...

Mysterious Neptune Dark Spot Detected from Earth for the First Time Aug ... the clearest view of this distant planet's rings in ... Saturn's Rings and Tilt Could Be the Product of an Ancient ...

A new study suggests that Earth might have had a ring system around 466 million years ago, potentially formed during a period of unusually intense meteorite impacts known as the Ordovician impact spik ...

But the gas giant, mostly known for its spectacular rings, may have cheated ... That is, if Saturn wants to hang with its fellow gas giants and ice giants. In fact, even smaller terrestrial planets ...