Scientists don’t agree on when the planet’s iconic rings formed—or even how they came to be. But the theories have one thing in common: violence. When the Cassini spacecraft took a 2013 image from ...

New Delhi: Sunday night brought with it a celestial illusion: the spectacular rings of Saturn vanished momentarily. They did not disappear in reality but just edged out of our line of sight, making ...

During the weekend, the orbits of Earth and Saturn will combine to create an interplanetary optical illusion for anyone with a good telescope and clear skies. By Tom Metcalfe If you head into your ...

Nothing else in the Solar System is quite like Saturn. At its poles, a terrible storm rages, a perfect hexagon twenty thousand miles wide with raindrops of molten diamond, flung by 300-mph winds.