Every 378 days, Saturn swings into opposition, bringing it closer, brighter, and nearly 10 times easier to observe than at ...

Saturn's rings are unimaginably vast. They extend outwards from Saturn's surface for hundreds of thousands of kilometers; to ...

Nothing else in the Solar System is quite like Saturn. At its poles, a terrible storm rages, a perfect hexagon twenty thousand miles wide with raindrops of molten diamond, flung by 300-mph winds.

Earth will move between Saturn and the sun this weekend, offering prime views of Saturn in what's known as "opposition." Here ...

Experts say that now is the best time to look up if you want to see a bigger and brighter view of Saturn and its rings. Find ...

Saturn has more than 60 moons, but a handful of them do more than spangle the planet’s skies. Snuggled close to Saturn, these innermost moons are small — Epimetheus, one of the largest, stretches just ...

The formation of Saturn's rings is an astronomical mystery. Saturn formed about 4.6 billion years ago, but the rings may have ...

Saturn, too tiny to make out, lies at the center of a swarm of 274 moons shown her at their correct relative distances from the planet. The blue and red arcs represent the moons' orbits. Some revolve ...

FARGO — The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has recognized 128 new moons in orbit around the planet Saturn, giving the ringed planet more known moons than the rest of the planets in the solar ...

"Although this doesn't rule out the possibility that Enceladus' ocean may be habitable, it does mean we need to be cautious ...

Science, founded by Thomas A. Edison in 1880 and published by AAAS, today ranks as the world's largest circulation general science journal. Published 51 times a year, Science is renowned for its ...

In November 2024 I was interviewed for a marvelous NPR podcast called Living On Earth about my latest popular science book, Under Alien Skies. While prepping for the show, one of the producers asked ...