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 ...

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

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to observe the Moon as it closely passes the Ringed Planet on the evening of ...

Saturn, with its rings and satellites, forms so true a picture of an early stage in the development of the solar system according to Laplace's theory of cosmogony, that one is almost tempted to ...

Arguably the most fascinating moon in the Solar System is the Saturn satellite Titan, which has the only known body with liquid seas and rivers (of methane) on its surface. A new study suggests ...

The method uses satellite observations to estimate the rate at which rivers ... New Image from James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Astonishing Saturn and Its Rings July 1, 2023 — Saturn's iconic ...

ForbesAny Biomass On Saturn's 'Snowball Moon' Enceladus Could ... a specialist in the geophysics of icy satellites, at SwRI. “If Mimas has an ocean, it represents a new class of small ...

"The Trojan asteroid was in the process of gravitationally 'bouncing' between the giant planets when it got snagged by Saturn." Saturn has finally joined its fellow solar system giant planets as ...

Saturn is best known for two things: its iconic ring structures and its large system of natural satellites. Currently, 146 moons and moonlets have been discovered orbiting the ringed giant ...