Saturn reaches its annual opposition on September 7-8, 2024, offering the best views of the ringed planet for amateur ...

Even from a staggering distance of 900 million miles, Titan is a persistent beacon beside Saturn, teasing even the 4-inch ...

Saturn comes second to Jupiter in many respects—in size, age, prominence of stripes—but in terms of scientific intrigue, it ...

Saturn's moon, Titan, is the only other celestial body we know of where long-lasting reservoirs of liquid pool on the surface ...

The ringed planet reaches opposition, Mars slips past the open cluster M35, and the original Cepheid variable shines in the ...

The new movie Slingshot, released Aug. 30, explores that very idea. Filled with mind-bending effects and life-threatening drama, the movie features astronauts, Saturn’s exciting moon. As always, it ...

The ring would have gradually fallen to Earth as meteorites, correlating to a spike of impacts seen in the geological record.

By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io—the most volcanically active location in the solar system—Cornell ...

Summer is winding down and partly cloudy skies have been making a comeback, rendering stargazing conditions uncertain lately.

Many regard Saturn's magnificent ring system, encircling the gas giant, as the most captivating and iconic feature in our ...

Astronomers have discovered at least 13 of Saturn's 148 moons during ring plane crossings throughout history, including the famous Titan, Enceladus and Mimas. During a ring plane crossing in 1966, ...

It launched second, but reached its target first. On September 5, 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft blasted off from Cape ...