Saturn may be one of the most beautiful planets in the solar system, but reaching it is brutally difficult. Sitting 1.3 billion kilometers from Earth, the gas giant lies beyond the asteroid belt in a ...

In March 2025, the International Astronomical Union recognised the discovery of a whopping 128 more moons orbiting around ...

Now, they can say just how large. It's the biggest in the solar system. In a study Wednesday in Nature, scientists concluded that the faint ring known as the Phoebe ring is 270 times the size of ...

It's hard to imagine Saturn without its glorious, extensive, complicated rings. Yet, when the Cassini probe arrived to study the planet in 2004, it made a curious discovery: the ice chunks and ...

The atmospheric carbon dioxide was thought to be the result of the oxidation of oxygen molecules in the exosphere. As a consequence of this discovery, Rhea became the first Saturnian moon, and only ...

Two faraway worlds in the solar system are about to appear rather close to each other in the night sky on Monday. The first planet from the sun, Mercury, and Saturn, the second of the gas giants in ...

"I don't think anyone's made this connection between the surface fluid pattern and the interior properties of these planets." ...

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Stargazers are about to have a chance to spot Saturn and the moon sharing a section of the night sky in what's known as a conjunction. Here's when.

Florida is home to 3 dark sky locations that may offer the clearest views of a planetary conjunction between Saturn and the ...