Before the ribbon-cutting for the solar system walk on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail on Nov. 29, created by WHS Astronomy ...

Voyager 1 is about to cross a threshold that sounds almost mythical: within about a year, the spacecraft will be a full light ...

Eight distant worlds hold secrets that still puzzle scientists and spark endless curiosity. Each moon offers a strange allure ...

It takes light a single day to travel 16 billion miles. The Voyager 1 probe will need a little longer, just 49 years.

There are few sights in our Solar System as stunning as Saturn’s bright, sweeping rings. But this Sunday, November 23, the gas giant looked strangely bare. For a short while, its famous rings seemed ...

About 400 years ago, astronomers observing Saturn through telescopes were baffled when its rings seemed to vanish.

As it heads out of the solar system never to return, the deep space probe Voyager 1 is headed for yet another cosmic milestone. In late 2026, it will become the first spacecraft to travel so far that ...

There are few sights in the Solar System as majestic as the rings of Saturn. But on Sunday (November 23), these rings will “disappear” — though only briefly. While the vanishing will not be total, it ...

If you head into your backyard this weekend and set up your telescope, the giant planet Saturn will be there for you to see. “Saturn is a spectacular object to look at,” said Damian Peach, an English ...

During the weekend, the orbits of Earth and Saturn will combine to create an interplanetary optical illusion for anyone with a good telescope and clear skies. By Tom Metcalfe If you head into your ...

Perhaps the most iconic sight in the Solar System — if not the universe — is Saturn’s rings, something every sighted person should endeavor to see. That is, when they are visible.

Last month’s absolutely storming introduction to Tilly and Susan Bridges’ Star Trek: Voyager series, Homecoming (see our review here), couldn’t have gone any better for this latest IDW Publishing ...