I was looking forward to writing a tribute to clear summer skies and great summer stargazing in the Pacific Northwest.

The only source of water in those early hours is licking dew from a few scattered plants, the sun is so scalding you have to ...

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

The Vela explosion stands out as the most dramatic example, occurring when our planet was emerging from the last ice age around 13,000 years ago.

A new planet has been spotted forming around a distant star, carving gaps and spiral arms in its disk, offering astronomers a ...

It had not been thought possible that such tiny, weak stars could provide the conditions needed to form and host huge planets ...

Exoplanets—planets that orbit stars beyond our solar system—have transformed our understanding of the universe. Since the first confirmed discovery in the 1990s, more than 5,000 have been ...

Saturn has seven main rings, which are thought to be made from pieces of comets, asteroids or crushed moons that broke up before they reached the planet. Although the huge rings extend up to 175,000 ...

For a very long time, Saturn was thought to be the only planet in our solar system with rings. The rings around Saturn were discovered by an astronomer called Galileo Galilei nearly 400 years ago ...

The Cassini spacecraft that orbited Saturn in 2004-2017 found the planet’s rings to have very little dirt. This was unusual — and the start of a mystery about the rings’ age April 10, 2025 e ...

Now, a group of Earth scientists at Melbourne’s Monash University have asked the question “Did Earth ever have a ring?” And surprisingly the evidence they’ve uncovered points to an intriguing “yes”.