Roughly every 15 years, Earth passes through the plane of Saturn's rings, causing them to nearly disappear from view - not to ...

"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?

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 ...

One of the highlights to be found in this month’s Colorado sky is the golden-hued planet Saturn which can be seen forming an ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists' first—and, so far, only—close glimpse of ...

The giant planet J1407b has been a weird space mystery since its discovery in 2010. But a new study revealed something about the planet that may help explain at least part of its weirdness: a ...

Saturn surrounded by its rings appeared to ... This apparent motion of the planet, however, is not uniform, but is affected by the periodic shifting of our point of view, the earth, so that ...

“If the planet were not tilted, we would view these thin rings edge-on and barely be able to see them,” says Lu. Interestingly, planets really close to their stars couldn’t be tilted in the ...

“If the planet were not tilted, we would view these thin rings edge-on and barely be able to see them,” says Lu. Interestingly, planets really close to their stars couldn’t be tilted in the same way, ...