Sunita "Suni" Williams had an unexpectedly long stay at the International Space Station after her capsule malfunctioned.

The rings, believed to be made up of rocky and icy chunks that could be as large as a house, help separate Saturn from other ...

Skywatchers will get a rare chance to see Saturn in its full glory, without chunks of ice and rock swarming around it.

These next two weeks bring us a potentially thrilling partial eclipse of the sun and amazing sights of Venus in its once-every-eight-years steepest departure from the evening sky.

The gas giants outside our solar system are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering ...

Saturn has cemented its status as the planet with the most moons, leaving Jupiter trailing behind. Astronomers have confirmed ...

The first total lunar eclipse in more than two years lit up the sky last night as humanity, forever fascinated with the Earth ...

Saturn has decisively claimed the crown. With the discovery of 128 new moons, the ringed planet’s total count has soared to 274 — nearly twice as many as all other planets combined. Jupiter now trails ...

Observations took place between 2019 and 2021, then again in 2023. Astronomers took pictures of the sky around Saturn for ...

An international team of astronomers working with the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have discovered a whopping 128 more ...

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision ...