Though the planets are always “aligned,” seeing more than four in the sky is more uncommon. February’s lineup is a chance to ...

NASA Voyager 1 probe discovers Saturn’s moon, Epimetheus. Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before beginning its ongoing journey out of the solar system. The probe entered ...

The main rings are about 280,000 kilometers across; if you put them between Earth and the moon, they’d cover more than two thirds of that gap! At Saturn’s distance of more than a billion ...

Children of Saturn, a first-person found-footage game about a group of teenagers coming of age in an era of climate catastrophe, taps directly into this feeling, speaking to our current moment and ...

The goal was to find a name for one of Earth's seven known quasi-moons; its provisional designation was the very catchy title of 2004 GU9. Quasi-moons are "moons" that orbit planets and seem to ...

At the moment this image was captured, the probe was approximately 3 miles (5 km) above Saturn's largest moon. The probe's descent from its parent spacecraft, NASA's Cassini, took approximately 2. ...

Venus will be the brightest object in the sky tonight, aside from the moon. To the left of Venus, brighter than the stars but not at the same level as Venus, you'll find Saturn. The two planets ...

As 2025 begins, the "Wolf Moon" illuminates the night sky, marking the year's first celestial event and offering a stunning sight for skywatchers worldwide. The forest scene reveals moonlight ...

The presence of moonlight makes this planet impossible to view, so plan on viewing Uranus before the moon rises (which will be at around midnight). Venus, Saturn, and Neptune will be clustered ...

Saturn’s largest and brightest moon, 8th-magnitude Titan, lies a little over 2.5’ east of the planet tonight. But there’s a rarer sight on display: Saturn’s moon Iapetus, now roughly 11th ...

The researchers analysed oxygen isotopes from 14 samples from the Moon and carried out 191 measurements on minerals from Earth. Isotopes are varieties of the same element that differ only in the ...

The moon likely formed from material ejected from Earth's mantle, with minimal contribution from the protoplanet Theia, as indicated by the high isotopic similarity of oxygen-17 between Earth and ...