Saturn will put on a show for professional and backyard astromers alike, and be the brightest and closest it has been to ...

Telescopes on the National Mall tonight will give people a chance to see the stars and experience the largest astronomy outreach event in the United States.

In a once-a-year event, Saturn is about to reach opposition, with the ringed planet appearing its best and brightest as it ...

Saturn orbits the sun every 29.4 years, and it comes to opposition every 378 days as Earth undertakes it on its far shorter ...

Hubble Space Telescope imagery of Saturn, captured from 2018-2024, has been time-lapsed. Footage courtesy: NASA, ESA, Amy Simon (NASA-GSFC), Michael H. Wong (University of California) | edited by ...

The Hubble Space Telescope time-lapse captured footage of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, ...

Recently, the astronomical community has welcomed an exciting discovery: water vapor has been detected in the atmospheres of ...

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Deep in space, an ancient brown dwarf nicknamed "The Accident" has revealed the first-ever detection of a molecule that ...

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

To our surprise, a similar phenomenon of water vapor has also been observed on exoplanets far in the depths of the universe.