Saturn's rings extend up to 175,000 miles (282,000 km) from the planet. However, they are very thin: The main rings have a height of only 30 feet (10 m), on average, according to NASA.

Uranus is yet another ringed planet Uranus in all its haloed glory, captured with the James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared cameras. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. Thirteen rings pirouette around ...

By next February the ringed planet will have ducked behind the moon 12 times over the course of less than a year (ten in 2024 and twice in early 2025). Yet few of these occultations were or will ...

The ringed planet floats in northeastern Aquarius, south of the Circlet of Pisces. At magnitude 0.5, Saturn outshines all the stars nearby, including magnitude 1.2 Fomalhaut, ...

The ringed planet now has more known moons than the rest of the planets in the solar system combined. By John Wheeler. March 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM. Comments Share Share this article.

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The International Astronomical Union officially recognized 128 new moons orbiting ...

On Sept. 7, Earth will be precisely between the sun and Saturn, with the ringed planet at its apparent biggest, brightest and best of the year. Any telescope will enable you to see its unique ring ...

It will take at least two minutes for both planet and rings to either disappear or reappear from behind the moon. A map showing the visibility of the lunar occultation of Saturn on Nov. 10, 2024.