The coming week will see the gas giant Saturn return to the Northern Hemisphere's late night sky, after spending the last few ...

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 ...

Located billions of light-years away, the "Cosmic Owl" is a pair of colliding ring galaxies spotted by the JWST. It's also an ...

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 ...

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

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

I was looking forward to writing a tribute to clear summer skies and great summer stargazing in the Pacific Northwest.

Sometimes the best stargazing happens on ordinary nights. Late June 2025 showcases consistent cosmic rhythms: Venus is brilliant as Morning Star 2-3 hours before sunrise, Mars is red in Leo during ...

Space is a very big place, and as such, it's full of mysteries that scientists can't explain. Some of this is simply because it's impossible to fully observe, thanks to its sheer size and the ...

Astronomers have been fascinated by Saturn's magnificent rings since Galileo peered through his telescope in 1610 and spotted bulges either side of the planet. He suspected they were moons but ...

Galileo was the first to notice the rings disappear from view during a plane crossing in 1612. At the time, it was proposed that the rings were in fact moons of Saturn, leading Galileo to wonder ...