Get your binoculars out! On Saturday (Jan. 4), skywatchers in the U.K. and most of Western and Central Europe will be able to see Saturn vanish behind the crescent moon — an event known as a ...

Ice moons such as Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus are currently at the forefront of the search for extraterrestrial life, as it is believed that beneath their thick icy shells there ...

Europa, and Io—are visible with a telescope. Mars: Low in the east-northeast, it will reach its closest and brightest just days after the Wolf Moon. Saturn: Near Venus in the southwest ...

Looking further into the future, scientists dream of even more ambitious missions. Some ideas include sending submarines into ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The first full moon of 2025 is the called the Wolf Moon. It will be rising into the night sky this week.

Collapsed dead stars, known as neutron stars, are a trillion times denser than lead, and their surface features are largely ...

A famous illustration of Saturn's moon Titan got it all wrong. Never mind -- what we imagine space to be, and what we know it ...

A new study implies that in the past, moons in our solar system may have had rings just like planets do — deepening the ...

The celestial bodies in our solar system take many forms. Some are made of rock, others gas, and others even ice. The farther ...

NASA Voyager 1 probe discovers Saturn’s moon, Epimetheus. Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before beginning its ongoing journey out of the solar system. The probe entered ...

That is why astrobiologists are increasingly turning their eyes toward icy bodies like the Jovian moons of Europa and Ganymede, Saturn’s moons Titan and Enceladus, Uranus' moon Miranda and the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A stunning new photo captures the moon and Saturn engaged in a cosmic game of peek-a-boo. On Jan.