Saturn’s rings are an arresting sight even through modest telescopes. The planet is made mostly of hydrogen and helium whereas the rings are billions of pieces of mostly bright-white water ice and ...

“New Horizons shattered a major paradigm of planetary science,” says Alan Stern, the mission’s principal investigator. “Pluto ...

"Pale Blue Dot" – one of the last photos taken by Voyager 1 – is still the most distant image of the Earth. Astronomer Carl ...

Interplanetary contamination risks from space missions and strategies to mitigate them, including the importance of ...

Why don't Saturn's rings throw a shadow onto the planet's surface, like its moons do? John GrimleyToronto, Ontario The simple ...

To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

A startling silhouette of Saturn is created in this Cassini spacecraft portrait. A kingly crescent Saturn rests on the right of this Cassini spacecraft portrait while the moon Mimas appears above the ...

September opens with Venus hosting winter constellations in the eastern predawn sky. West of the planet, the bright star Procyon, in Canis Minor, the little dog, rises at almost the same time as ...

On May 8, 1962, a powerful rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The liftoff was a test of NASA’s readiness for ...

Saturn’s iconic rings are vanishing this year ... up to ten-metre wide “icebergs,” Prof Zijlstra told the Manchester Evening News. “In spite of being so enormous, the rings are almost ...

Jeff Carlson writes about photography and technology and is the author of dozens of how-to books covering a wide spectrum ranging from Apple devices and cameras to photo editing software and ...

More than a billion people around the world are celebrating the Lunar New Year. A traditional lion dance performance in Beijing on Wednesday.Credit...Kevin Frayer/Getty Images Supported by By Yan ...