A stunning new photo captures the moon and Saturn engaged in a cosmic game of peek-a-boo. On Jan. 4, Saturn briefly hid behind the crescent moon, escaping the view of skywatchers in Europe, Africa, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Saturn is already visible in the post-sunset night sky, but ...

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

Look up Oct. 5: the nearly Harvest Moon will guide you to Saturn, where a telescope reveals its famous rings — even if they're just a thin line for now. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

Researchers have confirmed the mass of a free-floating planet thanks to a lucky convergence of ground- and space-based ...

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope ...

A Saturn-mass planet, which had been drifting alone through space after escaping the gravitational pull of its star, has been ...

On Dec. 25 and 26, a waxing crescent moon will appear close to Saturn in the night sky after sunset, making a beautiful ...

Saturn will briefly lose its bling. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Saturn's rings will appear to have disappeared if you catch a ...

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...

Quite far beyond the Milky Way is a lone planet that astronomers found new information about. For the first time, scientists ...