At a glance, Saturn’s rings appear calm and pristine when observed from afar. These rings are quite narrow and consist mainly ...

A new study proposes that Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, absorbed a smaller ancient satellite in a catastrophic collision, which also set off a chain reaction responsible for creating Saturn’s famous ...

A new study hints that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was created around 400 million years ago, when two massive moons smashed ...

A lunar eclipse will be visible over the United States on March 3. Here's how to view it.

Soon, four astronauts will launch on a mission to the vicinity of the Moon for the first time in over 50 years. The mission, ...

Look out for "Earthshine" brightening the shadowed region of the lunar disk close to the new moon phase.

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

On Feb. 20, 2020, a federal judge sentenced Republican strategist and former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone to 40 months ...

An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers ...

In a conventional system like our own, rocky planets such as Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars orbit closest to the host star. Farther out, gas giants ...

The Artemis II crew — commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover and mission specialists Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen — includes the first person of color (Glover), the first woman (Koch) and the ...

Titan orbits farther out, moving with steady confidence, whereas Saturn has always handled itself with a sort of serene ...