Saturn's ring was long believed to be a continuous solid mass. Bond and Peirce regarded it as liquid, but in 1884 Pratt discovered a distinct granulation which suggested its true nature.

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

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

The solar wind pushes some of the gas and dust away from the comet, forming those beautiful tails we see. A comet actually ...

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

Our universe just got a lot weirder. From planets with rings larger than the Sun to alien worlds where it rains molten iron or glows magenta, NASA’s latest exoplanet discoveries are challenging ...

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

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

To scrutinize Saturn’s innards, scientists turned to the planet’s rings, which act like a seismograph and record the gas giant’s internal sloshing and pulsing. By decoding subtle ripples in ...

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

Saturn is a planet widely recognisable for its iconic rings but a new study suggests Earth may also have had a similar ring system over 50 million years ago. As part of the research, 21 asteroid ...