These extremely low density cotton candy exoplanets—known as super-puffs —are a big puzzle for astronomers trying to figure ...

Titan likely has the rich chemistry to jumpstart life. But the question is whether its suspected subsurface ocean is simply ...

Saturn not only possesses an atmosphere ... its true nature. Now we know with certainty from the photometric investigations of See- liger, of Munich, that the rings are made up of countless ...

“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to ... the levels of carbon dioxide, a planet-heating greenhouse gas, were high in the atmosphere. The theory sheds new light ...

Scientists continue to learn new things about the planet, its sweeping rings and its many ... hydrogen and helium that make up most of Saturn’s heft, plugs heat from dissipating from the core ...

My first sight of Saturn through a telescope inspired my love of space. Dig out your telescopes or visit your local astronomy ...

Time is running out for skywatchers to get a view of Saturn's rings. The planet's rings will temporarily drop out of the night sky view from Earth during parts of the spring and, again ...

"The hypothesis is that a large asteroid broke up when it ... and crossing its Roche limit is one of the most common ways rings form, with this being the way that Saturn's rings are thought ...

Instead, they believe Earth once had a ring around it, chunks of which eventually rained down through the atmosphere ... notable for its lack of a ring system. Though Saturn’s rings are ...

But Earth itself would have been a lot gaudier—decorated with a ring system similar to the ones that circle Jupiter, Saturn ... from that crack-up eventually found its way to Earth.

Time is running out for skywatchers to get a view of Saturn's rings. The planet's rings will temporarily drop out of the night sky view from Earth during parts of the spring and, again, in the fall of ...

Instead, they believe that they may have come from a ring around Earth, similar to Saturn’s rings. It might sound strange to think Earth had rings. However, researchers say it’s actually very ...