In two days time, NASA's Cassini will reach the last stage of its Grand Finale when it enters Saturn's atmosphere. Leading up to this moment, Cassini has been approaching the planet closer than it ...

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

The moon, Saturn and Neptune will rise a little before midnight for those in the U.S. Heads up stargazers! The moon will rise ...

The annual competition for professional and amateur astrophotographers released its shortlisted images, which capture the ...

A waning gibbous moon, by now rising late at night, will appear first, followed by the steady, golden glow of Saturn. They’ll ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

The rings of Saturn glide so tranquilly when watched through a telescope, that it is easy to forget the planet sits in a ...

Researchers have called for the public's help after an image appears to show an unidentified object slamming into Saturn.

Unlike rocky planets where asteroid impacts leave visible craters, gas giants like Saturn have outer layers of hydrogen and ...

Our universe just got a lot weirder. From planets with rings larger than the Sun to alien worlds where it rains molten iron or glows magenta, NASA’s latest exoplanet discoveries are challenging ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an exoplanet no one had seen before. This marks a turning point in space ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...