Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...

Saturn has 274 moons recognized by the International Astronomical Union. The number of moons increased substantially in March 2025 when 128 new moons were discovered by a team led by Edward Ashton ...

You thought Saturn's 146 moons ... Waldek is a self-taught space nerd and aviation geek who is passionate about all things spaceflight and astronomy. With a background in travel and design ...

Some of Saturn’s other moons were discovered by space voyages, and some during what are called “ring-plane crossings”. When the Voyager 1 spacecraft passed by Saturn, it took images that ...

From 2004 to 2007, he used the 8.2-metre Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii to examine patches of space near Saturn and detected ... reducing the number of background stars in our line ...

Some of Saturn’s other moons were discovered by space voyages, and some during what are called “ring-plane crossings”. A ring-crossing is where Saturn’s rings seem to disappear from our ...

And the rings are extremely flat. They can be as little as 10 metres thick, but extend 280,000 kilometres into space. Saturn's rings' vanishing act comes down to the fact that the gas giant is ...

This property makes them planets comparable to Saturn and Jupiter. HR 8799 exoplanets captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. NASA, Johns Hopkins University Although intense light ...

Some of Saturn’s other moons were discovered by space voyages, and some during what are called “ring-plane crossings”. When the Voyager 1 spacecraft passed by Saturn, it took images that ...