A stunning new photo captures the moon and Saturn engaged in a cosmic game of peek-a-boo. On Jan. 4, Saturn briefly hid behind the crescent moon, escaping the view of skywatchers in Europe ...
Scientists studying Saturn's icy moon, Enceladus, have discovered that its ocean forms layers that slow the upward movement ...
Twenty years ago today, I watched TV coverage of a probe descending toward the surface of Titan, a moon of Saturn, while outside my home in Utah snow dusted a rocky mountain outcrop I’d ...
Saturn rotates a on a 27 degree tilt that causes strong seasonal variations. Saturn circles the sun on a 27 degree tilt that experts now believe could be caused its moons and especially Titan, the ...
Most likely, the first alien life we discover will be hidden beneath miles of ocean on a distant world like Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn's moon Enceladus. That's why the best way to search for ...
A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the mystery of why no ringed moons exist today.
This week we continue to see the planets shuffle their way into our early evening night sky, with a Jupiter-Moon conjunction starting off a week that also sees a very bright Saturn become visible ...
A detailed simulation to solve this mystery has revealed that, contrary to reality, 'many moons should have rings.' The most well-known ringed planet is Saturn; its rings are made up of thousands ...
Onlookers saw not only the full moon, but also a bright light close to its disk. Saturn, the “ringed planet,” is just past its bright opposition, a point in Earth’s orbit when it’s between ...