A composition photo of images taken during the lunar occultation on Jan. 4 captures the progression of the moon moving in ...

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched ...

Both Venus and Saturn will be in the Aquarius constellation, the water bearer, during their close approach. To help spot it, ...

So sensitive to light is Webb that it had to be pointed at only tiny parts of Saturn at any one time to prevent its detectors from being overwhelmed. The resulting images are therefore overlaid ...

But later – hundreds of millions of years in the future – a permanent, virtually ringless Saturn will become real, thanks to another process called ring rain in which gravity pulls the rings apart and ...

A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it ...

Planetary alignments aren't rare, but they can be when they involve six of the eight planets in our solar system.

Saturn, Uranus and Neptune Where it is: From about 365 million to 2.8 billion miles (587 million to 4.5 billion kilometers) from Earth When it was shared: Dec. 9, 2024 Why it's so special: This iconic ...

Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that ...