The moon will rise with Venus and the ice giant Neptune in the pre-dawn sky on Thursday, May 22.

For the rest of North America, this will be a very close approach of the moon to Saturn (called an appulse). The moon, moving around the Earth in an easterly direction at roughly its own diameter ...

After a near miss with an asteroid 466 million years ago, Earth may have developed a Saturn-like ring of debris that lasted for tens of millions of years – and may have significantly affected ...

7 and 8, orbiting on the opposite side of Earth as the sun ... which means that you'll have ample opportunity to see Saturn at or near opposition with moonlight-free skies. When you observe ...

Astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy, who goes by cosmic_background on Instagram, captured an unreal photo of Saturn over the weekend. McCarthy says he captured the image from the roof of a parking ...

(NEXSTAR) — The sky has already graced us with a total lunar eclipse and a rare planetary alignment, but we’ll soon have the chance to witness another peculiar celestial event: the ...

NASA's eight-rotor Dragonfly drone just finished a crucial test, which confirmed the spacecraft's design and will allow the project to move forward with full-scale fabrication of the spacecraft, ...

Despite this, all the impact craters are close to the equator ... with this being the way that Saturn's rings are thought to have originated. This ancient ring around Earth may have blocked ...

Saturn sports some of the coolest bling of ... It's not a farfetched theory given that asteroids come pretty close to Earth all the time, and some even stick around for a bit as a second moon. " ...

Saturn will be very close to the Sun in the sky in March, so it will be difficult to catch this from small telescopes,” she said. “However, because the Earth’s orbit is short, a similar ...