I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

Visualize the stunning visual spectacle and potential atmospheric changes if Mars possessed rings similar to Saturn.

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I’ve already completed my bucket list. It had one item on it. I didn’t know that item was on my bucket list until I did it, or even that I had a list. But now I know that I will die having seen the ...

On April 26, NASA's Cassini spacecraft shot between Saturn and its innermost ring, going where no human-made object has gone before. Cassini has already made some new discoveries thanks to its ...

Cassini shot the gap and lived to tell the tale. The Saturn-exploring spacecraft managed to successfully fly through the 1,500 mile gap between Saturn and its rings and survive seemingly unscathed.

Later observers have been deceived in the same way. Saturn surrounded by its rings appeared to Scheiner and Hevel, in 1614, as a disk with two projecting ears. The Jesuit priest Eustachius de ...

The thin, outermost ring in the photo is composed of particles shepherded by the gravity of two moons orbiting around it. They are vertically wider than the other rings, so they receive and reflect ...

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How many moons it has: At least 274 known moons, with more likely to be discovered With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from ...