When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

Averting your gaze when viewing the ringed planet can cause an optical phenomenon that might make you think twice about what ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

A team of astronomers has uncovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a star located 4,000 light years away from the solar system ...

A 6-mile-think shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's ...

Scientists believe Saturn's largest moon, Titan, could be one of humanity's best bets to find some form of extraterrestrial ...

The icy shell of Titan, Saturn's largest moon ... which results in crater shallowing at a rate that is close to that of ...

Three days later the moon will make a close pass to Mercury in the evening sky. A new moon happens when the moon is between ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn.

A new study, led by planetary scientists at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, revealed that methane gas may also be trapped ...

Today, we know of more than 5,000 exoplanets: planets outside our solar system that orbit other stars. While the effort to ...

This angle reaches a maximum before mid-November as Earth runs ahead of Saturn for a slightly better peek at the northern ...