Everyone can watch a small moon skim Saturn’s northern pole, while advanced imagers may catch its shadow on the cloud tops.

Let’s look to Saturn this morning to catch Titan, its largest and brightest moon, now close to the planet as it passes south of its parent world. Shining at mid-8th magnitude, Titan is easy to spot in ...

How far it is from the sun: 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers), on average How big it is: 72,400 miles (116,500 km) across, or almost 10 times the size of Earth. How many moons it has: At ...

For much of the summer, planet watchers have had to contend with bright dawn skies and awkward viewing angles. Several ...

Saturn's rings are falling in on the planet as icy rain, according to researchers. Scientists say this is occurring due to the planet's intense gravity. Dr. James O’Donoghue, from the Japan Aerospace ...

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 ...

New research suggests that Saturn's rings may be older than they look—possibly as old as the planet. Instead of being a youthful 400 million years old as commonly thought, the icy, shimmering rings ...

Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun – The Ringed Planet. Curious, young sky watchers often ask, “What’s the planet with the rings?” These rings are Saturn's identity, and those very rings that ...