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 ...

The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.

A new study suggests that Earth might have had a ring system around 466 million years ago, potentially formed during a period of unusually intense meteorite impacts known as the Ordovician impact spik ...

What an autumn it’s been for stargazing all around the world. Between the frequent Aurora and Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas and all ...

November’s major meteor shower ramps up as the Moon reaches perigee shortly before its Full phase in the sky this week.

The eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Mercury is closest to the Sun. Neptune is the farthest. Other than Saturn, the planets that have rings are: ...

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

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...