Just after midnight tonight, Saturn will appear at its biggest ... much like Earth's, is tilted relative to its orbit, causing its rings — located directly above the planet's equator — to ...

The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.

People thinks over Saturn’s awe-inspiring system of rings that enclose the gas giant to be the most fascinating and iconic ...

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

Recent research featured in Earth and Planetary Science Letters uncovers interesting findings about this ancient ring and its anticipated influence on our planet. While the notion that Earth had a ...

One example is the planet HIP-41378 f, a gas giant with a three year orbit around an almost Sun-like star about 350 light years away from Earth ... that big, and there’s something else in the way ...

During the time 485 to 443 million years ago, known as the Ordovician period, Earth was already in the throes of a serious cold snap. But the ring may have exacerbated things, plunging the planet ...

We call it a Goldilocks planet because the Earth’s temperature ... if you could find a bathtub big enough! Saturn is famous for its beautiful rings which extend out about 280,000 km from ...

When Earth wore a ring around its middle, it would have affected how sunlight reached the planet’s surface. The ring probably would have shaded the hemispheres of the planet experiencing winter ...

It’s a yearly moment when Saturn, Earth and the sun ... It’s a big moment for amateur astronomers with telescopes because an outer planet's annual opposition sees its entire disk visible ...

In the cosmic candy shop, there are Ring Pops (less magnificent versions of Saturn), Hot Tamales (Jupiter-like planets close to their stars and blazing hot), and even cotton candy planets (big ...

Whatever transpired, we know that some unusual event showered chunks of rocks across our planet’s surface around 465 million years ago, a little sprinkle of space making its way to Earth. Let’s assume ...