New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...
It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...
When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...
In Greek imagination, the line of three stars to the upper left of Pegasus depicted the beautiful princess Andromeda chained ...
But the gas giant, mostly known for its spectacular rings ... the space rock was "bouncing" around the solar system. Additionally, because the orbit of this Saturnian Trojan is unstable, Saturn ...
A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...
The study found unusually high levels of meteorite debris in sedimentary rock layers from this time, further supporting the idea of an Earth ring system ... Beneath’: Is Saturn’s moon Titan ...
Neptune is the farthest. Other than Saturn, the planets that have rings are: Jupiter: This planet has a faint ring system composed mainly of dust particles and small rocks. Its rings are less ...
(Unlike Saturn’s ring, it wouldn’t have been composed ... spattering our planet with space rocks may have created conditions that set up what we think of as “modern” oceans.
NARRATOR: Imposters, and oddballs, rewriting our understanding of our place in space ... Mars a wispy ring. CHAN: It would be quite impressive. I love ring planets, I love Saturn, and it's ...