It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...

One of the highlights to be found in this month’s Colorado sky is the golden-hued planet Saturn which can be seen forming an ...

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 ...

I WRITE to call the attention of observers to the present appearance of the inner dusky ring of Saturn. Although the ring is not very open, only permitting that portion near the ends to be seen on ...

For the first time in 15 years, Saturn's rings are almost edge-on to Earth ... but when you point a big telescope at it, people exclaim loudly when they see the view!" "Everyone tells us ...

Scientists have discovered that the icy shell of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, could possess an insulated, six-mile-thick (9.7-kilometer-thick) layer of methane ice beneath its surface.

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

Astronomers have finally found an asteroid keeping pace with Saturn in its orbit around the sun. Such objects, called Trojan asteroids, are already known for the other three giant planets.

A few showers linger in northern Iowa this morning followed by clearing during the afternoon and overnight.

Saturn is darker than the rings because the methane in its atmosphere ... they did just 450 million and 350 million years after the Big Bang. That makes them among the most distant and, therefore ...

You’ll need a small telescope to make out Saturn’s ring pattern. This almost-full moon ... about six stars forming the shape of a “mini Big Dipper.” Look slightly to its side, and you ...

York University professors John E. Moores and Jesse Rogerson allow you to imagine yourself as an astronaut in the solar ...