In February 2025, conditions were just right to catch a "planetary party" above the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) ...

The ringed gas giant Saturn has officially replaced Jupiter as the planet in our solar system with the most moons. The ...

Ashton was only able to take photos of Saturn during the new moon phase, Alexandersen said. During the full moon phase, the ...

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

These Hubble Space Telescope images, captured from 1996 to 2000 ... as seen from Earth — and is now emerging into the pre-sunrise morning sky. Saturn will be at opposition on September 21, 2025, when ...

With a whopping total of 274 moons, researchers say Saturn’s tug of war with Jupiter for the title is settled once and for ...

In 2023, astronomers discovered 62 new moons of Saturn, bringing its total to 145 moons and surpassing Jupiter. More recently ...

The team observed Saturn repeatedly between 2019 and 2021 and combined multiple images, reducing noise and strengthening ...

There were theories, however, that Saturn’s rings were transient and could disappear within 50-to-200 million years, while ...

Saturn has left its former rival in the dust with a new total of 274 moons, almost twice as many as all the other planets ...