In November 2024 I was interviewed for a marvelous NPR podcast called Living On Earth about my latest popular science book, Under Alien Skies. While prepping for the show, one of the producers asked ...

(NEXSTAR) — The sky has already graced us with a total lunar eclipse and a rare planetary alignment, but we’ll soon have the chance to witness another peculiar celestial event: the disappearance of ...

New NASA supercomputer simulations show that Saturn's rings may have been formed by a 'massive collision' of icy moons.

By a small margin, Titan is the second-largest moon in the solar system, and is also the only moon with a thick atmosphere.

Saturn takes about 29.4 Earth years to complete one orbit of our home star, according to NASA. As it does, the second largest planet in our solar system experiences seasons due to the axis of rotation ...

Planetary rings explained: composition, formation theories, and a comparison of Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune’s rings.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The rings, believed to be made up of rocky ...