While the detailed views of Saturn’s rings from the Cassini spacecraft (which orbited Saturn in 2004-2017) are impressive, nothing prepares you for your first glance at the planet through a ...

King Ring Just when you ... Really, more like a doughnut than the planet's standard rings. Like Phoebe's orbital plane, the big ring is inclined 27 degrees to the planet's other rings.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Left to right: Saturn, Uranus, and Jupiter show off their rings for various NASA spacecraft ...

ALMA images of the planet-forming disk with misaligned rings around triple star system GW Orionis. The image on the right is made with ALMA data taken in 2017 from Bi et al.

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.

This Jan. 2, 2010 image made available by NASA shows the planet Saturn, as seen from the Cassini spacecraft. On Monday, new research suggested that Saturn’s rings may be older than they look ...

The rings of the other planets contain mostly dust, which is dark and doesn¿t reflect much light. Additionally, whereas Saturn's rings are wide, the other planets sport thin rings.