Viewing Saturn with the naked eye isn't ideal; if you don't use a good backyard telescope or pair of binoculars, Saturn will be indistinguishable from any bright stars in the sky. The best way to view ...

Saturn gets close to the moon tonight, and skywatchers in Florida, northwestern South America, the Caribbean and Central America will see the ringed planet briefly disappear behind our lunar companion ...

The Moon will continue to draw closer to the ringed planet until 9:45 pm tonight when they will be separated by about 5 arc minutes. Your little finger on your outstretched hand is about a degree wide ...

Southwest Research Institute scientists have compiled 41 solar occultation observations of Saturn’s rings from the Cassini mission. The compilation, published recently in the scientific journal Icarus ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights ...

Saturn sports a new ring in an image taken by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft on Sunday, Sept. 17, during a one-of-a-kind observation. Other spectacular sights captured by Cassini’s cameras include wispy ...

This beautiful image shows Saturn re-emerging from behind our moon after a lunar occultation on 4 January. These occur when the moon passes between Earth and another object in the night sky, blocking ...

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