Two separate research teams have observed a previously unseen microlensing event, confirming the existence of a particular ...

Astronomers have spotted a Saturn-sized world drifting through a region of space that theory once said should be almost empty ...

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

Rogue planets — worlds that drift through space alone without a star — largely remain a mystery to scientists. Now, ...

Saturn is on display in the early-evening sky this month along with Uranus and Neptune, both within reach of binoculars.

Saturn has just pulled far ahead in the solar system’s moon race, with a fresh wave of detections pushing its tally to 274 ...

NASA’s Cassini space probe orbited Saturn for 13 years, when, with its mission complete, it entered a controlled descent, burning up in the ringed planet’s atmosphere. Before its fiery demise, however ...

John Howe, the famed illustrator who brought J. R. R. Tolkien’s universe to life, is now inviting the world into his mind’s eye by setting up his studio in a medieval prison-turned-museum in ...

The Cassini probe took its final orbits, referred to as the Grand Finale Orbits (GFOs), in 2017, before launching itself into Saturn's atmosphere. During these GFOs, the probe collected samples of ...

Specks of dust from Saturn’s rings appear to float much farther above and below the planet than scientists thought possible, suggesting the rings are more like a giant dusty doughnut. The main ...