NASA astronaut Don Pettit already has a long-held reputation for creating stunning space photography, and his latest effort ...

Averting your gaze when viewing the ringed planet can cause an optical phenomenon that might make you think twice about what ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

This apparent motion of the planet, however, is not uniform, but is affected by the periodic shifting of our point of view, the earth, so that Saturn is not always easily found and distinguished ...

If there is dazzle in the contemporary images ... the distance between the Earth and the Moon. NASA, JPL, Space Science Institute Southern Pass (2000): En route to Saturn, Cassini flew by the ...

These are a result of seawater killing coastal trees. NASA Earth Observatory images by Michala Garrison, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. "The closer a forest is to sea level ...

Saturn shines in the south most of the night, Jupiter rises in the early evening, while Mars is visible in the early morning sky.

Gaseous giant Saturn seems to have snatched its first known ... It is worth noting that even smaller terrestrial planets like Earth and Mars also have Trojans. "We think it is about 9 miles ...

6. One of the STS-103 astronauts inside Discovery's cabin took this image of the full moon backdropped against the blackness of space over Earth's horizon.

Voyager 1 switched to a very old backup radio transmitter, not used since 1981, restoring NASA’s contact amid communication ...

Forecasters will soon be able to use the instrument, a coronagraph, to better monitor the effects of solar storms.

The world just got to witness this year's biggest and brightest Moon in the night sky. October's full Moon also called the Hunter's Moon appeared on Tuesday and lasted three days, giving stargazers ...