Galileo Galilei, the first person to study Saturn through a telescope, was the first to see this. It shocked him profoundly. When he initially turned his instrument on Saturn, in July 1610 ...

Through his telescope, all of a sudden, details beyond human perception were visible in astonishing clarity. Galileo was the first person to observe the rings of Saturn. He spent hour after hour ...

During Saturn's opposition this year the ringed planet through a telescope will look something like ... [+] the image at the lower-left of this composite from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Saturn's famous rings are about to disappear. No, not literally – that isn't projected to happen for another hundreds of millions of years. But for astronomers and stargazers using ground-based ...

Over the last ten years, OPAL has observed Uranus' northern hemisphere, which has faced the inner solar system for the ...

A group of Earth scientists have asked the question “Did Earth ever have a ring?” And surprisingly the evidence points to ...

NASA and ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been observing the outer planets through a program called OPAL (Outer Planet ...

Saturn’s northern hemisphere and rings. Planetary scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have trained it on Saturn to see what happens when summer turns to fall. Earth has seasons ...

Saturn will sidle up to the moon this weekend, as the pair make a close approach of each other in the cold night sky.