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 ...

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.

Discover the epic journey to Jupiter and Saturn as we break down decades of NASA missions, from Pioneer and Voyager flybys to ...

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 ...

When Galileo pointed his telescope at Saturn and Jupiter, he had just discovered the nature of two giant planets. Later came Uranus and Neptune, two more gas giants. Since then, astronomers have ...

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A brilliant Italian scientist, mathematician and astronomer, Galileo Galilei knew, as few others did in his time, that the Earth revolved around the sun. And when he refused to be silent about it, he ...

Galileo knew he had discovered a new planet in 1613, 234 years before its official discovery date, according to a new theory by a University of Melbourne physicist. Professor David Jamieson, Head of ...