An optical illusion during Saturn's equinox is to blame for the rings disappearing from view briefly. The next time this is set to happen is May 6, 2025.

Saturn’s rings, which are believed to be made of broken bits of comets, asteroids and shattered moons, extends up to 175,000 miles from the planet — but their vertical height is only about 30 ...

If you love looking at the stunning rings of Saturn, here's a heads-up: They're going to vanish from our view briefly. News Bergen Passaic Sports HS Sports Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals.

Saturn's rings, perhaps the most defining part of the gas giant, are going to vanish by March 2025, according to Earth.com. But they aren't disintegrating, and it's nothing permanent.

Saturn's rings are mostly made up of ice, asteroids, comets and moon fragments. In May 2025, the massive celestial loops will be effectively invisible to the human eye.

Ingredients for life discovered on Saturn moon; astronauts perform spacewalk 05:54. Saturn's rings will seemingly disappear from view in 2025, a phenomenon caused by the planet's rotation on an axis.

Saturn's rings are falling in on the planet as icy rain, according to researchers. Scientists say this is occurring due to the planet's intense gravity. Dr. James O’Donoghue, from the Japan ...

As Saturn’s rings vanish during 2025, so too does the constancy Galileo thought he observed in the strangest member of the Sun’s family of planets. Cronos, the monstrous son-devourer, has ...

T he rings of Saturn could be much older than previously believed, possibly as old as the planet itself. In 2004, when NASA's Cassini probe arrived to study Saturn, it discovered that the ice ...

NASA image showing how Saturn's rings will appear to disappear during its equinox in 2025. NASA. The last time this was visible was in September 2009, and will occur again in October 2038.