But later – hundreds of millions of years in the future – a permanent, virtually ringless Saturn will become real, thanks to another process called ring rain in which gravity pulls the rings apart and ...

On the evenings of Jan. 17 and 18, the planets will appear virtually side by side, in what's called a “planetary conjunction.

Chorus waves, which affect the safety of astronauts and satellites, have been found in a place where their existence was ...

Scientists suggested the enormous object disrupted the orbits of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, which would explain the peculiarities of these four planets' paths. Prevailing solar ...

Twenty years ago, the Huygens probe achieved humanity's first landing on a moon in the outer solar system when it touched down on Titan.

The enormous visitor to our solar system may have been about 8 times the mass of Jupiter, and come nearly as close to the sun ...

This fact not only gives us a sense of the immense size of some of the planets, like Jupiter and Saturn, but also emphasises just how vast outer space truly is. Even though we’ve made incredible ...

Seeing the Earth from outer space can have a huge psychological impact ... especially when they involve Saturn, one of the Solar System's more intriguing objects due to its spectacular rings.