Look up Oct. 5: the nearly Harvest Moon will guide you to Saturn, where a telescope reveals its famous rings — even if ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — While the seasons will soon begin to change, there are still a couple of opportunities for stargazers to enjoy sights in the summer sky before the onset of astronomical autumn on ...

On Friday, May 22nd, at 6 pm PDT / 9 pm EDT/ 01:00 UTC (5/23), Slooh will look at Saturn, as Saturn looks its very best. The night of May 22nd or morning of May 23rd, depending on your time zone, is ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

Enceladus has long been considered a prime candidate in the search for life beyond Earth because of its hidden ocean and plumes of water erupting from cracks near its south pole.

But for astronomers and stargazers using ground-based telescopes, the gas giant's seven rings are about to be unobservable for a short time from Earth's vantage. Why? Well, every 13-15 ...