Scientists have discovered a comet traveling one way out of the solar system after a close encounter with Saturn. The comet, designated Comet A117uUD (A117uUD), was only discovered on June 14 ...

The rare phenomenon will start on Sunday, March 23, at 12:04 p.m. EDT (9:34 pm in India) and extend for a few days.

Faint signatures detected by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope have revealed 128 new moons around Saturn, making it the indisputable frontrunner for having the most moons in our solar system.

In new photos of this planet parade, the wispy glow of our own Milky Way galaxy is accompanied by Saturn, Neptune ... planets and stars in the sky, while comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is just visible ...

On 23 March 2025, Saturn's rings seemed to vanish from sight due to a rare event known as a ring plane crossing. This ...

Why does Saturn’s ring become invisible? The phenomenon occurs because Saturn maintains a 26.7-degree axial tilt. As it ...

A new comet, recently discovered by Hannes Gröller ... Still way out in the solar system between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus, it is nonetheless surrounded by a cloud of dust or gas, known ...

By Sage Rohrbach A photo of five of Saturn’s moons, captured by the Cassani spacecraft. The moons visible are Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Rhea, and Mimas. Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science ...

Exactly how the other rings formed is a mystery, but one theory is that sometime in the past, a moon or large comet got too close to Saturn and was ripped apart by its gravity. As to when this ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 seen above the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert. . | Credit ...