Saturn is one of the most mesmerizing planets in our Solar System. Famous for its iconic rings, it is also a world of extreme ...

Two marquee celestial moments will headline late September, giving stargazers a bright planet to admire and a seasonal reset ...

How far it is from the sun: 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers), on average How big it is: 72,400 miles (116,500 km) across, or almost 10 times the size of Earth. How many moons it has: At ...

We may have missed out on the lunar eclipse this past weekend, but there is still plenty to see in the night sky this month.

Fresh from a spectacular “blood moon” total lunar eclipse and its full “corn moon” phase on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2025, a nearly ...

There’s planet congestion this month as Saturn joins Venus, Mercury and Jupiter in the early evening Pottsville heavens and in my book it’s the best planetary telescope target. I’m certainly not alone ...

I’ve had a love affair with the planet Saturn ever since I first saw it through my first telescope nearly 60 years ago. Even though the image was tiny, I could see the ring system around the great ...

Saturn’s distinctive rings were observed in unprecedented detail by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, and scientists have now used those observations to probe the interior of the giant planet and obtain the ...

On Sunday night, Saturn will be closer to Earth than at any other point during the year. The American Museum of Natural History's Jackie Faherty explains how people can view this phenomenon. If you've ...

Saturn now has 82 moons while Jupiter has 79. Each of the newly discovered moons is about three miles in diameter. Seventeen of them orbit the planet backwards. Forget Jupiter. Saturn is now the solar ...