Canadian astronomers have taken an extraordinary step in understanding how planets are born, using the James Webb Space ...
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists are studying Saturn's moon Titan to assess its tidal dissipation rate, the ...
The only spacecraft to have delivered astronauts to the moon. In this video, we focus on the Saturn V rocket that launched ...
Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may ...
An event called a "ring plane crossing" will occur between Saturn and Earth on March 23, 2025, when Saturn's rings will ...
New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...
The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...
But some of the primordial rubble continued to orbit the sun, becoming today’s asteroids ... Enceladus, a 310-mile-wide moon of Saturn, has an icy shell encasing a salty ocean with many of the same ...
The OSIRIS-REx team discovered evidence that Bennu likely originated well beyond the orbit of Saturn, before becoming a NEO (Near Earth Object) which would cause certain materials to evaporate ...
Saturn’s other moons orbit over its equator, so the material from this one would likely have wound up in a similar configuration as well. Also, because Saturn isn’t a perfect sphere but ...