Figuring out the day length of Earth is more complicated than you might imagine. While on average a day is 24 hours long, ...

NASA image showing how Saturn's rings will appear to disappear during its equinox in 2025. NASA. The last time this was visible was in September 2009, and will occur again in October 2038.

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

Scientists say that Saturn's rings are falling in on the planet as icy rain due to the gas giant's intense gravity. Saturn's rings are made of pieces of comets, asteroids or moons.

And the event is relatively rare: Ring plane crossings — as the phenomenon is known — typically occur twice during the 29.4 years it takes Saturn to make one orbit around the sun.

By the time we lose Saturn to the Sun’s glare in February 2025, the rings will be less than 3° from edge-on. I’ll be most interested in knowing what you see or don’t see before this time.

Saturn’s bands will make a comeback tour after March 2025, before disappearing once again in November 2025. The planet has seven distinct rings comprised of ice, rocky debris and dust.

Saturn’s rings formed 100 million to 200 million years ago, the study suggests, far more recently than previously believed. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute. By . Aylin Woodward.

Saturn's iconic rings will seemingly "disappear" from view this weekend as they align edge-on with Earth for the first time since 2009.

Saturn's iconic ring system will disappear, albeit temporarily, on March 23—a preview of its fate in 100 million years. Chron Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo Skip to main content ...

Saturn’s rings have never completely disappeared (though they might in the next few hundred million years). The planet’s ring system extends up to 175,000 miles from Saturn’s surface, making ...

Measuring ring-material detected by Cassini falling into Saturn’s equator allowed astronomers to give the rings another 100 million years to live. This story has been updated to fix a typo.