Saturn is visible in the sky now, a beautiful ringed world with a density so low it would float in water. Wait. No. That's actually wrong, says Wired Science blogger Rhett Allain.

When Galileo pointed his modest telescope at Saturn in 1610, he prepared a sketch showing the main globe of the planet bracketed by a matching pair of small moons.

In a 1610 letter to the Duke of Tuscany, Galileo wrote, "The planet Saturn is not alone, but is composed of three, which almost touch one another and never move nor change with respect to one another.

In three months, Saturn's iconic, icy rings will appear to disappear, giving you a preview of what the planet could look like 100 million to 300 million years from now.. On March 23, an optical ...

Saturn is the sixth planet in the solar system and is about 910 million miles from the sun. It's the second-largest planet and is approximately 10 times larger than Earth.

Saturn's many rings are disappearing, and in 2025, the rings won't be visible from Earth, at least temporarily. Saturn's ring system extends up to 175,000 miles from the surface of the planet ...

On Sunday night, Saturn will be closer to Earth than at any other point during the year. The American Museum of Natural History's Jackie Faherty explains how people can view this phenomenon.