I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Until scientists learn more then, here are seven of the most fascinating discoveries they’ve made about Saturn so far. The ...

On Tuesday evening, the Full Harvest Moon — also a Super Moon — undergoes a partial lunar eclipse visible across the U.S.

A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

On Sept. 17, 1789, the British astronomer William Herschel discovered Saturn's "Death Star" moon, Mimas. Of course, "Star ...

By staring into the hellish landscape of Jupiter's moon Io—the most volcanically active location in the solar system—Cornell ...

Saturn currently leads, with 146 moons at last count ... the movement of a star past the adolescent solar system. Roughly four-fifths the present-day mass of the sun, this stellar visitor was ...

Staff at Village Creek State Park, just 10 miles north of Beaumont, spotted not only the lunar eclipse, but Saturn and its ...

“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...

A possible bright comet, a southern hemisphere solar eclipse, and a half-dozen meteor showers (including one that might ...