While Saturn has been visible in the night sky all of September, this weekend, the ringed planet will shine its brightest. Here’s what to know about its placement, and how to best see it.

Saturn’s iconic rings will seem to “disappear” for a couple of days starting this weekend — at least from our vantage point on Earth. The rings won’t actually vanish, but for a short time, the angle ...

Head outside before sunrise, which is around 7:15 a.m. Sunday, and look to the south/southeast. You should see the moon. To the top right, there will be the two planets shining brightly. You will know ...

Previously undetected organic compounds have been found in ice ejected into space from Enceladus, making the satellite a ...

Saturn's famous rings are about to disappear. No, not literally – that isn't projected to happen for hundreds of millions of years. But for astronomers and stargazers using ground-based telescopes, ...

With the recent discovery of traces of what may or may not be or have been life on Mars, eyes are turning to another world in ...

Time is running out for skywatchers to get a view of Saturn's rings. The planet's rings will temporarily drop out of the night sky view from Earth during parts of the spring and, again, in the fall of ...

(NEXSTAR) — The sky has already graced us with a total lunar eclipse and a rare planetary alignment, but we’ll soon have the chance to witness another peculiar celestial event: the disappearance of ...

Underground oceans on moons “are perhaps the best candidates for the emergence of extraterrestrial life in our solar system.