During the weekend, the orbits of Earth and Saturn will combine to create an interplanetary optical illusion for anyone with ...

On July 30, 1610, the famous astronomer Galileo Galilei became the first to observe rings around the planet Saturn. Shortly after the telescope was invented in 1608, Galileo peered out into the solar ...

Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky Monday, appearing closer to one another than they have since Galileo’s time in the 17th century. Astronomers say so-called conjunctions between the two ...

Sky-watchers are in for a rare celestial illusion this weekend as Saturn tilts in such a way that its iconic rings nearly ...

Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky to create a single "Christmas star" Monday, appearing closer to one another than they have since Galileo’s time in the 17th century Astronomers say ...

Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky to create a single "Christmas star" Monday, appearing closer to one another than they have since Galileo’s time in the 17th century Astronomers say ...

Astronomers had long assumed that Saturn's distinctive rings formed around the same time as the planet some 4.5 billion years ago in the earliest days of our Solar System. That assumption received a ...

Nothing else in the Solar System is quite like Saturn. At its poles, a terrible storm rages, a perfect hexagon twenty thousand miles wide with raindrops of molten diamond, flung by 300-mph winds.

ROME (Reuters) - Italian and British scientists want to exhume the body of 16th century astronomer Galileo for DNA tests to determine if his severe vision problems may have affected some of his ...