Saturn gets close to the moon tonight, and some skywatchers in Florida, Central America and South America will see the ringed planet briefly disappear behind our lunar companion.

Planetary scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have trained it on Saturn to see what happens when summer turns to fall. Earth has seasons because it rotates on a tilted axis ...

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

That's because the distance between Earth and Saturn is at its minimum during opposition—around 814 million miles. During Saturn's opposition this year the ringed planet through a telescope will ...

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 ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

2023 — A new photo of Saturn was taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on October 22, 2023, when the ringed planet was approximately 850 million miles from Earth. Hubble's ultra-sharp vision ...

It, too, will enable the study of galaxy formation and of Saturn-sized exoplanets orbiting nearby stars, among other pursuits. The E-ELT will dwarf all other optical/near infrared telescopes.

A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

Located 690 light years away from the Sun, the newest discovered planet is third most dense sub-Saturn class located at the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has captured a remarkably smooth, 'pancake-like' disk of debris surrounding the star ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...