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 ...

People thinks over Saturn’s awe-inspiring system of rings that enclose the gas giant to be the most fascinating and iconic ...

potentially creating a debris ring around Earth, much like the rings surrounding gas giants such as Saturn. Over millions of years, pieces from this debris ring likely descended to Earth, leading to ...

Above the planet Saturn – the ... hanging like a tiny lantern in the twilight glow to the west. More brilliant than anything ...

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

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

Over the next two months, Earth's orbit will encounter meteor showers likely ... The next night, the club will meet at the ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

By sheer chance we may have visited the seventh planet when things weren’t normal and have misunderstood it ever since.

As the Earth orbits the sun, it pulls itself through comet ... They'll look like a halo surrounding the planet rather than physical rings like you can usually see with Saturn. Opposition happens once ...