The presence of a North Pole star is a coincidence that has saved lives and perhaps changed history, but is it shared across ...

In our solar system, Earth is one of only three worlds that sees temperatures above 32 degrees Fahrenheit, while other ...

In recent years, Saturn has overtaken Jupiter as the planet with the most satellites in our solar system. How many moons does Saturn have?

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Witness a lunar occultation of both Mars and the Pleiades; plus, Mars reaches opposition and Venus and Saturn sit close ...

Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest ... is a persistent hexagonal storm pattern around its north pole. This unique phenomenon has puzzled scientists for years, and its ...

When I asked readers on social media for suggestions about the coolest things they’ve seen in spaceflight during the last 25 years, I received hundreds of suggestions. To the best of my knowledge, not ...

Saturn now hangs some 40° high in the south an hour after sunset. Glowing at magnitude 1 through the end of the year, the ringed planet is the brightest point of light in Aquarius and the ...

"The temperature just wildly swings from extremely hot to extremely cold," John Monnier, a professor of astronomy at the ...