“Unfortunately, Saturn will be very close to the Sun in the sky in March, so it will be difficult to catch this from small telescopes,” she said. “However, because the Earth’s orbit is ...

But when NASA’s Cassini spacecraft visited Saturn in 2004, it found that the rings appeared remarkably free of contamination from small space rocks, known as cosmic dust. This pristine ...

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

If you were to pick Saturn out of a lineup you’d probably recognize it by its iconic rings. They’re the biggest, brightest rings in our solar system. Extending over 280,000 km from the planet ...

It will then emerge as a bright “morning star” before sunrise. Only a small telescope will reveal Saturn’s rings, but 2025 is not the best year to look at them. Since Saturn rotates on an ...

An curved arrow pointing right. It's easy to forget how small our Earth is within the known universe. These to-scale visuals will help to keep that in perspective. Produced by Jacqui Frank Follow ...