These fragments formed a debris ring that encircled Earth’s equator resembling the rings visible around Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, and Jupiter. With time, much of this debris was drawn back to ...

When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

One of the highlights to be found in this month’s Colorado sky is the golden-hued planet Saturn which can be seen forming an ...

The remnants of the asteroid thereafter began a slow descent, bombarding the Earth with meteorites for millions of years. This onslaught is clearly visible ... But the ring may have exacerbated ...

Saturn is already visible in the post-sunset night ... However, warns the space agency, Saturn's rings are currently edge-on to the Earth. That’s because, like Earth, its spin axis is tilted ...

In 1876 a very bright spot appeared near the equator of Saturn, and remained visible ... But the rings are likewise invisible whenever their plane passes between the earth and the sun, because ...

A new study suggests that Earth might have had a ring system around 466 million years ago, potentially formed during a period of unusually intense meteorite impacts known as the Ordovician impact spik ...

They disap peared when the sun came into the plane of the rings; but reappeared on October 13. Since then they have been easily visible ... off than the earth, it, takes Saturn twenty-nine ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn. Since it is easily visible to the unaided eye, humans have seen it since the ...

They carry the story of Earth into deep space ... the left horizon and just below the rings. The dark shadows of Mimas and Tethys are also visible on Saturn's cloud tops, and the shadow of Saturn ...

Did Earth ever resemble Saturn? A bold new theory may well challenge our perception ... Analyses also show that this ring left visible traces in the sedimentary layers of that time. Unusual amounts of ...