The night sky at around 10pm this month (Nigel Henbest) Considerably dimmer, but still outshining the stars in the western ...
We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?
New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...
Averting your gaze when viewing the ringed planet can cause an optical phenomenon that might make you think twice about what ...
When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...
It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...
Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn.