Saturn's rings will appear to have disappeared if you catch a glimpse of the planet through the eyepiece of a telescope on the night of Nov. 23 — but don't worry, you'll be witnessing an illusion!

For months, Saturn has been a steady presence in the sky after sunset, but after tonight, it will move away from our view for ...

The lunar crescent will disappear below the horizon before midnight on Jan. 22.

Astronomers have spotted a Saturn-sized world drifting through a region of space that theory once said should be almost empty, a so‑called Einstein desert where planets are notoriously hard to find.

When we imagine finding alien life elsewhere in the solar system, we usually think of little green people (or more likely microbes) living on the surface of a rocky Earth-like world. Most of our ...

For decades, Saturn’s upper atmosphere has been one of the solar system’s great enigmas. Even the Cassini spacecraft, which orbited Saturn for over a decade, had difficulty catching clear signals from ...

On January 14, 2005, a spacecraft landed on one of Saturn's moons! The European Space Agency's Huygens probe hitched a ride on NASA's Cassini spacecraft to Saturn's largest moon Titan. It parted ways ...

A rare alignment between Earth and Saturn will make the gas giant’s rings appear so thin that they’ll be nearly invisible. Reading time 2 minutes Stargazers with backyard telescopes may notice ...

June 30, 2023, Mountain View, CA – Get ready to be amazed by the latest James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) image. Saturn’s iconic rings seem to glow eerily in this incredible infrared picture, which ...

A study of Saturn's atmospheric structure using data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed complex and mysterious features unseen before on any planet in our Solar System. A study of ...