A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the ...
I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...
Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...
A composition photo of images taken during the lunar occultation on Jan. 4 captures the progression of the moon moving in ...
NASA Voyager 1 probe discovers Saturn’s moon, Epimetheus. Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before beginning its ongoing journey out of the solar system. The probe entered ...
The moon and Saturn will be close together all night, so they will rise and set around the same time. The rise and set times will vary slightly depending on your location. You can use apps like ...
The Moon meets the Red Planet’s rival in Scorpius, skims close to Saturn, and reaches New phase in the sky this week.
its moon Titan and thin rings are visible through a telescope. Saturn will appear closest to Venus on Jan. 18. Uranus: High in the southeast, its visible with a telescope or in very dark skies. These ...
But later – hundreds of millions of years in the future – a permanent, virtually ringless Saturn will become real, thanks to another process called ring rain in which gravity pulls the rings apart and ...
However, for those outside of Europe, Africa, western Russia and eastern Greenland, the moon and Saturn still appeared close together all night, rising and setting around the same time.