Look to the southeastern horizon in the hours following sunset on Nov. 29 — you'll be able to see the moon shine close to the ...
On the evenings of Friday, Nov. 28 through Sunday, Nov. 30, a waxing gibbous moon moves past Saturn in the southern sky — an ...
Far from the warmth of the Sun, some of the coldest-looking worlds in the solar system may be hiding the hottest surprises.
Enceladus is Saturn's sixth-largest moon, a 500 km-wide icy world famed for its south polar geysers spewing water from a ...
Saturn gets close to the moon tonight, and skywatchers in Florida, northwestern South America, the Caribbean and Central America will see the ringed planet briefly disappear behind our lunar companion ...
While the crater-pitted moon may appear geologically dead, researchers have discovered more could be going on under its icy ...
A new study reveals how shifting ice shells on icy moons can cause dramatic pressure changes, sometimes enough to boil their hidden oceans. The outer planets of our Solar System are accompanied by ...
Saturn's innermost moon, which resembles the Death Star from Star Wars, may be a "stealth" ocean world, according to new research. Mimas, which is the smallest and closest to Saturn of the ringed ...
A mere decade ago, astronomers knew of just 62 moons around Saturn. Today the ringed planet boasts a staggering 274 official satellites. That’s more than any other world in the solar system—and far ...
Saturn went in a retrograde (vakri) motion on 13 July, 2025 and will again go direct (margi) on 28 November at 9.20 AM. This ...
The rules for naming Saturn's moons mean "Moony McMoonface" is off the table. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science have discovered 20 additional moons orbiting Saturn -- and they are ...