But they aren't disintegrating, and it's nothing permanent. No, it's a quirk of Saturn's orbit, which takes 29.5 years to circle the sun, and how the planet is tilted on its axis, per the website.

Saturn will undergo a drastic change in the coming months, at least as the planet is seen from Earth. Here's what's going to ...

Saturn has the most moons of any planet in the Solar System. Thousands of moonlets, perhaps tens of meters long, orbit in a chaotic dance with the gas giant's true moons; the largest of its moons ...

Uncover the mystery behind Saturn’s iconic rings. ExtremeTech explains their origins and the science of our solar system. Dive into the cosmos today!

And this last orbit was just the last lap ... seconds of the Cassini mission - our first 'taste' of the atmosphere of Saturn - might be a number of PhD theses for students to come," observed ...

Each of the newly discovered objects in orbit around Saturn is about 5km (three miles) in diameter; 17 of them orbit the planet "backwards". This is known as a retrograde direction. The other ...

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 with respect to its orbit around the sun, so the ...

That’s the same at Saturn, though since one orbit takes 29 Earth-years each of its four seasons last for around seven Earth-years. As it happens, it’s been summer in Saturn’s northern ...