Averting your gaze when viewing the ringed planet can cause an optical phenomenon that might make you think twice about what ...

When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn. Since it is easily visible to the unaided eye, humans have seen it since the ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to observe the Moon as it closely passes the Ringed Planet on the evening of ...

Venus is the brilliant evening “star” now shining at magnitude -4 in the southwest at dusk. In early November—five months after its passage behind the sun at superior conjunction on June 4—Venus ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

Saturn is visible in the southern evening sky and is approaching the time when its rings will be edge-on as viewed from Earth. This happens every fourteen years or so, and in March of next year it ...

Here's what the cosmos has in store for you now that daylight savings time has come to an end, according to PEOPLE's resident ...

A joint Hubble and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project to learn more about the dusty disk around the bright star Vega has found a surprising lack of planets.

The world’s first wooden satellite has been sent to space to prove that wood is a space-grade material, and, most importantly, biodegradable.

This localized impact pattern, unusual given that over 70% of Earth’s continental crust lies outside this region, points to the presence of an ancient debris ring ... Is Saturn’s moon Titan ...

Mercury is closest to the Sun. Neptune is the farthest. Other than Saturn, the planets that have rings are: Jupiter: This planet has a faint ring system composed mainly of dust particles and small ...