The coming week will see the gas giant Saturn return to the Northern Hemisphere's late night sky, after spending the last few ...

Unlike rocky planets where asteroid impacts leave visible craters, gas giants like Saturn have outer layers of hydrogen and ...

Our universe just got a lot weirder. From planets with rings larger than the Sun to alien worlds where it rains molten iron or glows magenta, NASA’s latest exoplanet discoveries are challenging ...

Astronomers investigate a potential impact on Saturn after a bright flash was caught on camera. NASA image may show first ...

In 2013 scientists studying data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft—which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017— read the seismic signatures in the rings and used them to peer inside the planet.

Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn every year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it ...

The distant planet Neptune stands still against the background stars of Pisces in the early-morning sky, still visible close ...

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured an electrifying image of a giant lightning "sprite" shooting up over Mexico and ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope began its legendary mission unfolding the secrets of our universe and producing some of the ...

F iguring out the day length of Earth is more complicated than you might imagine. While on average a day is 24 hours long, ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...