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?

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 ...

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 ...

The rings would likely circle the Earth's equator, since the planet's rotation creates a massive bulge there. So people living in Quito, Ecuador, would see the rings as a thin slice of light in ...

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 ...

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 ...