A NASA mission launching in October will send cameras and other scientific equipment to see, among other things, whether ...

Saturn comes second to Jupiter in many respects—in size, age, prominence of stripes—but in terms of scientific intrigue, it ...

The Cassini mission’s samples from Saturn’s moon Enceladus have signs of various organic molecules that could be among the ...

By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io—the most volcanically active location in the solar system—Cornell ...

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that our planet may have once had a ring system around 466 million years ago.

A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers ...

Ever since the invention of the telescope, humans have looked to the planet Saturn in awe of its magnificent system of rings.

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

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that Earth may have had a ring system, which formed around 466 million years ago.

September’s full moon is also a lunar eclipse, meaning it’s supercharged with the power of several full moons all wrapped ...

Throughout Earth's history, the planet's surface has been regularly impacted by comets, meteors, and the occasional large ...

The final lunar eclipse of 2024 is set to unfold the evening of Tuesday, Sept. 17 and will be visible across North America, playing out on September's supermoon. Lunar eclipses happen when the Earth ...