A passing star may have kicked the weird moons of giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn into place, new research suggests.

On Sept. 17, 1789, the British astronomer William Herschel discovered Saturn's "Death Star" moon, Mimas. Of course, "Star ...

The ring would have gradually fallen to Earth as meteorites, correlating to a spike of impacts seen in the geological record.

Until scientists learn more then, here are seven of the most fascinating discoveries they’ve made about Saturn so far. The ...

Saturn's moon, Titan, is the only other celestial body we know of where long-lasting reservoirs of liquid pool on the surface ...

A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

Earth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could have led to ...

On Tuesday evening, the Full Harvest Moon — also a Super Moon — undergoes a partial lunar eclipse visible across the U.S.

Summer is winding down and partly cloudy skies have been making a comeback, rendering stargazing conditions uncertain lately.

When we think of planets with rings, Saturn often comes to mind. However, new research suggests that Earth might have had its ...

"It provides the warmth necessary to form and sustain subsurface oceans in the moons around giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn." "Studying the inhospitable ... This research was funded by NASA's ...

The new study asserts that Earth's ring formed around 466 million years ago, and stuck around for around 40 million years ...