Even though the Quadrantid meteor shower's peak has come and gone, stargazers are still in for a treat this month.

Saturn's famous rings are about to disappear. No, not literally – that isn't projected to happen for hundreds of millions of years. But for astronomers and stargazers using ground-based ...

At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows ... New research suggests that Saturn’s rings may be older than they look — possibly as old ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Saturn is already visible in the post-sunset night sky, but it will reach its annual opposition on September 7-8, 2024.

The idea that Saturn's rings are young seemed very strange in the context of the solar system's long evolutionary history." Saturn's rings might not be younger than the dinosaurs as recently ...

New research has cast doubt on the long-held belief that Saturn's rings are relatively young, suggesting instead that they could date back 4.5 billion years to when the planet formed. The study ...

The planetary nature of this signal was confirmed by follow-up observations using ground-based telescopes ... which yields a Saturn-like density at a level of 0.78 g/cm 3. TOI-4994 b orbits ...