A new study hints that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was created around 400 million years ago, when two massive moons smashed into each other. This hypothesis could also help to solve several other ...

At a glance, Saturn’s rings appear calm and pristine when observed from afar. These rings are quite narrow and consist mainly of water ice particles that uniformly circle Saturn in a symmetric ...

Under this new model, Titan itself is the result of a collision between two earlier moons: a large body called “Proto-Titan,” nearly as massive as modern Titan, and a smaller companion dubbed ...

Planetary systems in the Milky Way galaxy tend to follow a particular pattern: rocky planets toward the center, closest to ...

The six-planet parade will feature Mercury, Venus, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Jupiter. Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter ...

The best minimal-light, unobstructed vantage points in New York City include the Hudson River Waterfront, the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, a high-floor rooftop and the Rockaways, according to Secret ...

The best “planet parade” of the year puts Venus, Jupiter, and more on display right after sunset—and you can see most of them with the naked eye.

Their observations of a faint, cool M-dwarf star called LHS 1903 revealed a system with a rocky world at its outer edge. LHS ...

The updated measurements won't take away Jupiter's status as the solar system's biggest planet. NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS Scientists may have been overestimating the size of the solar system’s ...

For over 50 years, we thought we knew the size and shape of Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet. Now, Weizmann Institute of Science researchers have revised that knowledge using new data and ...

That will be a partial solar eclipse where the moon will block 70% of the sun from view. A rare planetary parade will march ...