In a stunning reminder of our place in the vastness of space, a remarkable image taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows ...

Saturn's rings tilt out of view every fourteen to seventeen Earth years. In 2032, they will be at their best again during their period of maximum tilt as seen from Earth. Saturn's iconic rings ...

This means they can be seen from Earth about once every 13 to 15 years. Unfortunately, however, Saturn will be too close to the sun this weekend for skywatchers to see how it looks without its rings.

At the time of Saturn’s equinoxes, however, the rings are seen more nearly edge on from Earth, and in fact they are exactly edge on as seen from the sun. But because Saturn’s orbit around the ...

Saturn will temporarily lose its iconic look from our viewpoint on Earth, appearing as a pale, yellow sphere without its swirling rings shrouding the gas giant. The billions of rocky and icy ...

Why? Well, every 13-15 years, Saturn, the second largest planet in the solar system behind Jupiter, is angled in a way in which the edge of its thin rings are oriented toward Earth – effectively ...

similar to the rings seen around Saturn. “Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in the geological record ...

Earth and Titan. Saturn’s moon Titan is almost featureless when seen in visible light, thanks to a thick blanket of atmospheric fog. But when astronomers look at it in infrared light ...

A natural-color view of Saturn as seen from NASA's Cassini spacecraft ... fact that Saturn is over a billion kilometers away from Earth, so it is amazing they can even be detected at all ...

Jan. 10, 2025 Chesley Bonestell’s “Saturn as Seen From Titan,” appeared with ... some 750 million miles away from Earth. With a thick nitrogen-methane atmosphere, Titan’s sky is choked ...

Amir Daftari is a Newsweek reporter based in London, specializing in global affairs with a focus on the Middle East. He joined Newsweek in 2024 from the United Nations and has previously worked at ...