It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...

Roughly every 15 years, Earth passes through the plane of Saturn's rings, causing them to nearly disappear from view - not to ...

When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

One of the highlights to be found in this month’s Colorado sky is the golden-hued planet Saturn which can be seen forming an ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn. Since it is easily visible to the unaided eye, humans have seen it since the ...

Saturn has finally joined its fellow solar system giant planets as the parent of trailing asteroids called "Trojans." But the ...

Scientists observed that all examined craters are situated within 30 degrees of the equator. This concentrated impact area, ...

Later observers have been deceived in the same way. Saturn surrounded by its rings appeared to Scheiner and Hevel, in 1614, as a disk with two projecting ears. The Jesuit priest Eustachius de ...

The Cassini orbiter, a collaborative mission by NASA, ESA, and ASI, provided us with a stunning legacy of Saturn and its intricate system of rings and moons.

A new study has claimed that methane gas might be trapped beneath a 9.7-kilometre-thick distinct crust of Saturn's largest ...

The eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Mercury is closest to the Sun. Neptune is the farthest. Jupiter: This planet has a faint ring system composed ...

This month is the last chance to see Saturn's rings for at least the next few years due to its position in relation to the Earth. Saturn will be very easy to spot tonight (Monday, October 14) as it ...