Saturn's rings extend up to 175,000 miles (282,000 km) from the planet. However, they are very thin: The main rings have a height of only 30 feet (10 m), on average, according to NASA.

In a recent article for sci-fi blog io9, Miller presented his wild visions of a ringed Earth and what the sky would look like from various places on our planet. He notes that Earth did have a ring ...

Unfortunately, the stunning snapshot is really just concept art released by NASA back in April 2017, ... Florida, the Cassini-Huygens mission took about seven years to reach the ringed planet.

By next February the ringed planet will have ducked behind the moon 12 times over the course of less than a year (ten in 2024 and twice in early 2025). Yet few of these occultations were or will ...

New evidence from the Cassini Saturn probe indicates that the planet’s moon Rhea may itself have rings! First off, no pictures of the ring, sorry (that’s an artist’s conception above). If it ...

NASA Probe Marks 13 Years at Saturn: Cassini arrived in orbit around the ringed planet on June 30, 2004, ... but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for ...

If you're a fan of stargazing, make sure you have this evening marked off in your diary. There's a once-a-year opportunity to see Saturn - and you don't want to miss it! The ringed planet will ...

In 2006, the spacecraft snapped an amazing view of Earth as it appeared from the ringed planet. That photo, called "In Saturn's Shadow," is one of the most popular Cassini images taken to date ...

The specificities date of Saturn’s opposition is Monday, July 20, 2020, but practically speaking you can get the year’s best views of the “ringed planet” anytime this week and month.

Mars may one day have rings similar to Saturn's famous halo, new research suggests.. In a few tens of millions of years, the Red Planet may completely crush its innermost mooninnermost moon ...

It said: "Earth will fly between the sun and Saturn on September 8, 2024, placing the ringed planet opposite the sun – at opposition – in our sky. "Saturn at opposition marks the middle of the ...