A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...

Giant planets are not rare per se — after all, we have four in our own solar system. Such large worlds are, however, rarely ...

This June, the Milky Way’s brilliant heart lights up the night as planets align and the solstice sun marks Earth’s celestial tipping point.

Saturn's moon Titan has an atmosphere that spins with a tilt completely separate from the moon's surface rotation.

Astronomers have spotted a cosmic mismatch that has left them perplexed - a really big planet orbiting a really small star.

Jupiter joins Mercury in early twilight as Mars lingers with Leo after dark. Saturn is visible in the morning, meeting ...

Astronomers have been left puzzled by the discovery of an unusually large planet orbiting a remarkably small star, a cosmic ...

The Romans named Saturn, but in Greek mythology, it was known as Cronos (as in ‘chronology’), and so is also referred to as ...

Enjoy a close conjunction of the solar system’s smallest and largest planet just days before the Full Strawberry Moon this ...

Those rings, however, are going to “disappear” in 2025. Like Earth, Saturn’s axis is tilted, NASA explains. Next year, Saturn will transition and its tilt will shift, altering our view of ...

The search for life beyond Earth is a key driver of modern astronomy and planetary science. The U.S. is building multiple ...

Now three months past its conjunction with the sun in March, Saturn is currently well separated from the dawn glow. On June 1 ...