Skywatchers will get a rare chance to see Saturn in its full glory, without chunks of ice and rock swarming around it.

The rings of Saturn will temporarily “disappear” this weekend, though most stargazers will be unlikely to see it. The rings ...

Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...

This means that as the planets travel around the Sun ... Galileo also inadvertently saw the first ring plane crossing. In 1612, two years after his first observations of Saturn, he noticed ...

The planets are still surrounded by rings of gas and dust from which moons appear to be taking shape. The two imaged infant ... in stellar terms, at just around 5 million years old.

New findings from the ALMA telescope have revealed that planets are born in much smaller protoplanetary disks than ...

Webb has filled in many gaps left by Voyager 2, the only spacecraft to visit the planet. In 2022, the telescope captured ...

If you were to look at Saturn through a teelescope today, you’d be forgiven for being disapopinted: the rings that define the ...

Astronomers have discovered 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the planet with the most moons with 274.The International ...

Let’s get this out of the way—any scientist studying Uranus will tell you that they’re tired of the planet being the butt of ...

Using advanced simulations, the researchers propose that these planets emerge from distinct rings ... around 1.8 times the size of Earth. Instead, exoplanets tend to cluster into two size groups ...