Try to imagine Saturn without its signature rings. Now picture two large icy moons shifting closer together little by little until — boom.

Using the powerful space telescope, astronomers saw the ringed planet's northern summer cooling as a 7.5-year-long autumn approaches. Astronomers have observed summer giving way to autumn on the ...

Saturn's changing insolation from 2004 to 2016 as seen by Cassini's Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS). The top row shows Saturn from an equatorial vantage point (the rings appear edge-on), and ...

For many observers, their first view of Saturn is one they will never forget. The sixth planet is responsible for recruiting many people to both amateur and professional astronomy with its ...

If there were a Starbucks on Saturn, it would be rolling out the pumpkin spice right about now. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently captured images of Saturn’s late summer slowly ...

BRIGHTON, MICH. -- Stargazers will get the chance to see outer space up close this month at Michigan’s biggest night-sky event of 2023. “Astronomy at the Beach,” the state’s largest public ...

Aug. 29, 2023 — Astronomers have uncovered a link between Neptune's shifting cloud abundance and the 11-year solar cycle, in which the waxing and waning of the Sun's entangled magnetic fields ...

As the UK has been experiencing record-breaking heat in September, Saturn’s late northern summer is experiencing a cooling ...

August is going out big—super, actually. The final days of the month will see two celestial events team up for one hell of a skyward collaboration, which will be on view even in the light ...

For the second time this August, the skies will offer up a late-summer treat this before we gear up for fall — a massive moon with a bonus Saturn sighting. For this reason, the moon is already ...

Mars' atmosphere is over 100 times thinner than Earth's. Mars' atmosphere is over 100 times thinner than Earth's and is primarily composed of carbon dioxide, nitrogen and argon gases. Oxidized ...