And, scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have detected what they like to call a ...

The rings of Saturn, if they are not continuous masses of cosmical matter, must be swarms of billions of small satellites, each of which travels in its individual orbit subject to the attractions ...

This gas giant has some really unique features that make it stand out. If you’re curious about space, learning a few things ...

Jupiter isn’t alone in this category; Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are also gas giants, though Uranus and Neptune are often ...

F iguring out the day length of Earth is more complicated than you might imagine. While on average a day is 24 hours long, ...

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that the Earth may have once had a system of Saturn-like rings. The rings are ...

In 2013 scientists studying data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft—which orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017— read the seismic signatures in the rings and used them to peer inside the planet.

Galileo continued writing in conversational language for his landmark 1632 work, Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del ...