Four of our planets have rings, but Saturn's are enormous and complex, in a class of their own. Just after the turn of the 17th century, Galileo Galilei designed and built the first telescope ...

Saturn's rings, although enormous, are too faint to see from Earth with the naked eye. The first human to ever observe them was Galileo Galilei in 1610 with his home-made telescope, but the ...

From March to November, one of the most distinctive features of the solar system will vanish. The reason is simple, but the ...

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

Notably, Galileo Galilei's early telescopic observations in the 1610s couldn't resolve Saturn's rings. It was only in 1655, thanks to Christiaan Huygens, that the detached rings were identified.

Five years after the appearance of the great supernova of 1604, Galileo builds his first telescope. He sees the moons of Jupiter, Saturn's rings, the phases of Venus, and the stars in the Milky Way.

New research reveals Earth likely had Saturn-like rings 466 million years ago. Now scientists say this could point to ...