Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

Saturn is everyone’s favorite planet, it seems. Through a telescope those glorious rings make that world appear so three-dimensional that it’s not ...

Sauk Prairie will get a glimpse of one of the two eclipses that will occur over the next thirty days. The total solar eclipse ...

Earth crosses through Saturn’s “ring plane,” making the gas giant’s most iconic feature become nearly invisible ...

Planets don't get much more iconic than Saturn. But if you managed to see it through a backyard telescope right now, you wouldn't see its rings.

The moon dims, the meteors fly, and the planets dance—these are the most exciting celestial events happening this month.

There will be a large planetary alignment on Aug. 10, 2025, featuring Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn, ...

Venus remains rather low at dawn but slowly gains altitude as the month rolls along. Look for it in the east 45-60 minutes ...

Plus: A solar eclipse and an occultation of the Pleiades as our satellite skims through several constellations in the sky ...

It's not every day that a prominent feature of our solar system disappears, but that's precisely what will happen with Saturn ...

Our current view of Saturn means we're looking at the gas giant's famous rings edge on, making it impossible for telescopes on Earth to see them. This phenomenon is called a "ring plane crossing ...