Saturn, the planet of restriction, constraint, and structure will be retrograde, but don't fret—it's not as crazy as it ...

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision about 100 million years ago.

An optical illusion during Saturn's equinox is to blame for the rings disappearing from view briefly. The next time this is set to happen is May 6, 2025.

This phenomenon is caused by an optical illusion that occurs when the stars line up. Saturn is tilted at 26.73 degrees on its orbit, while Earth is very close to that at a 23.5-degree tilt. When ...

Saturn's rings might have formed 100 million years ago when one of its icy moons was ripped apart by the planet's gravity.

In the process of those interactions, however, the moon spun out of orbit, got close to Saturn, and was destroyed, creating the ring material.

Saturn joins the sun’s other giant planets that have Trojans, space rocks that orbit along the same path.

Or Saturn may have captured more objects into its orbit than Jupiter. Or Saturn’s moons may have been on orbits that were more likely to overlap and collide, producing smaller, irregular moons.

Since Saturn takes significantly longer to orbit the Sun (29.4 Earth years) on its much longer trajectory, Earth spins around the Sun and catches Saturn at approximately the same place each year.

Saturn's characteristic rings are made of chunks of ice and rock, thought to have fallen into orbit around the planet after larger cosmic bodies were torn apart by Saturn's gravity.