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 ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn. Since it is easily visible to the unaided eye, humans have seen it since the ...

November’s major meteor shower ramps up as the Moon reaches perigee shortly before its Full phase in the sky this week.

The eight planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Mercury is closest to the Sun. Neptune is the farthest. Other than Saturn, the planets that have rings are: ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

Venus is the brilliant evening “star” now shining at magnitude -4 in the southwest at dusk. In early November—five months after its passage behind the sun at superior conjunction on June 4—Venus ...

The growing trend of astrotourism continues to draw new travellers to the wonders of the night sky in places where light ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

Watch for the brightest planets in the sky throughout the month, as well.

At 15.4 billion miles away from Earth in interstellar space ... Launched in 1977, the pair was originally intended to study ...