Roughly every 15 years, Earth passes through the plane of Saturn's rings, causing them to nearly disappear from view - not to ...

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 ...

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

But a new study revealed something about the planet that may help explain at least part of its weirdness: a sprawling set of rings that may actually rotate backwards around the planet. J1407b may ...

Saturn surrounded by its rings appeared to ... This apparent motion of the planet, however, is not uniform, but is affected by the periodic shifting of our point of view, the earth, so that ...

“If the planet were not tilted, we would view these thin rings edge-on and barely be able to see them,” says Lu. Interestingly, planets really close to their stars couldn’t be tilted in the ...

The rings, influenced by Saturn's magnetic field, are gradually being pulled into the planet. The phenomenon of "ring rain" may lead to their disappearance in the future. Saturn, a gas giant with ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...

Social media influencer and Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy, of One Bite Reviews, breaks own rule to give onion rings at ...

“If the planet were not tilted, we would view these thin rings edge-on and barely be able to see them,” says Lu. Interestingly, planets really close to their stars couldn’t be tilted in the same way, ...