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Whilst Saturn is spectacular to view with the naked eye alone, a 6-inch telescope will help resolve the gas giant's iconic ...
Two distant planets lie 1° apart in the morning sky, visible together in the same field of view through binoculars or a telescope.
Bluish-white Regulus in Leo is moving toward the western horizon and sets around 10 p.m. in mid-July, followed a couple of ...
Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn every year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it ...
On March 28, 1963 NASA launched the first stage booster of its new Saturn 1 rocket on a fourth and final test flight. This uncrewed suborbital flight helped pave the way for astronauts to launch ...
Visible in the early-morning sky today, Saturn’s two-toned moon Iapetus reaches superior conjunction just 1.4′ due south of Saturn. The proximity makes the now-11th-magnitude moon easier to find, as ...
Saturn will burn in Aries from May 24th to September 1, 2025, when the planet will retrograde back into Pisces for a few months before returning to the cardinal fires of the ram from February 14 ...
The Pioneer 11 spacecraft launched from Earth on April 5, 1973, and completed a flyby of the ringed giant on Sept. 1, 1979. NASA's Voyager 1 flew past Saturn in 1980 and, along with Voyager 2 ...