Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life.

Meet the author: Dr. Phil Plait is an astronomer, author, and science communicator with a PhD in astronomy at the University of Virginia. He has written four books on astronomy and consulted on space ...

Most planets that orbit two stars do so in a fairly simple way: the two stars orbit in a ring structure, and the planet orbits in a ring which is further out. But this newly discovered planet is ...

The predawn hours of April 28 will see a planetary triangle form in the night sky, as Venus makes a close approach to Saturn following a conjunction, while Neptune, invisible to the naked eye, will ...

However, it will be hard to witness it, because Saturn is now so close to being directly behind the Sun, even spotting the planet is challenging ... compared to its orbit, at 26.7 degrees more ...

Saturn experiences seasons and solstices due to its axis of rotation being tilted by 26.7°. Earth is also tilted in its orbit, by 23.5°, and as both planets travel around the Sun in their own ...

Any given spot on Earth receives 90 times more sunlight than a comparable spot on Saturn. The further a planet is from the Sun, the more time it takes to complete an orbit. A year on Saturn is the ...

asteroids and comets - in orbit around it. The Sun and its planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune The different planets have different properties and conditions.