Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life.

Astronomers have discovered a strikingly unusual exoplanet: one which orbits its host stars in a totally new way. The planet ...

A stellar occultation this month gave scientists an opportunity to scrutinize the seventh planet from the Sun.

Saturn is a planet widely recognisable for its iconic rings but a new study suggests ... Back then (463–444 million years ago) it was a strange time because while there was a period of intense ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets — worlds beyond our solar system. Most of them are in single-star systems, ...

As far as planets go, they don't get much more iconic than Saturn: a huge golden ball encircled by gigantic rings. There's nothing else quite like it in the Solar System. Right now, it's hard to ...

"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s ...