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

Galileo was the first person to observe the rings of Saturn. He spent hour after hour on painstaking drawings of the Moon through its phases, observed Venus and Mars, and even made sketches of ...

As planets go, Saturn is relatively faint but easy to find. Just after dark, look low in the south for the brightest “star” you see there. Saturn has a distinctly yellow cast. When Galileo first ...

Two years later, however, Galileo found that these attendants of Saturn had vanished ... cast by the rings on the planet. A very fine drawing of the shadow as observed in 1856 was made by Secchi ...

This evening, astronomy enthusiasts have an exciting opportunity to witness a beautiful phenomenon in the sky as the waxing gibbous moon and Saturn draw near in a remarkable conjunction Visible to the ...

The Chicxulub impactor that killed the non-avian dinosaurs 66 million years ago, had a mass of order that of Phobos, 10^{16} kilograms, about a thousand times less than the total mass of Saturn’s ...

A 6-mile-think shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's vast subsurface ocean. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Amazing pencil drawings: Graphite has always been the favourite medium for artists to portray their creativity. Amazing artworks through pencil is not limited to 2D, there are numerous artists who ...

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Boeing’s six decades in space have helped to facilitate a permanent off-planet U.S. presence and enabled our first footsteps ...