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 ...

I f astronomers had been walking the Earth 466 million years ago, they may have had something special to see. The moon and ...

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 ...

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.

Scientists may have found an explanation for the mysterious, eccentric orbits of objects far beyond Neptune in our solar ...

Earth may have had a Saturn-like ring system long ago, created from the debris of a passing asteroid that our planet tore ...

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

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