February may be the shortest month of the year, but it is packed with celestial events, according to a new skywatching update from NASA.

"The most likely explanation for the dimming is a brown dwarf – an object heavier than a planet but lighter than a star – surrounded by a vast and dense ring system." ...

If Titan formed from a merger, the researchers found, its eccentric orbit could destabilize smaller moons closer to Saturn, ...

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may have formed in a collision with another moon, and ...

Of the solar system’s planets, Saturn piques the human imagination with its signature rings and impressive moon count of 274. But compelling new research reignites theories of an ancient collision ...

Enceladus’s geysers power vast electromagnetic wave systems that redistribute energy throughout Saturn’s magnetosphere.

Before plunging into Saturn’s atmosphere in 2017, the Cassini spacecraft made a series of daring close passes between the planet and its rings. During those final orbits, its instruments collected ...

In a paper to be published in the Planetary Science Journal, scientists from SETI Institute, Southwest Research Institute, ...

Please join the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 11 a.m. for a talk by Ryan Maguire. Launched in 1997, the Cassini spacecraft orbited the ringed planet Saturn for ...

Behind the serene, glowing beauty of Saturn’s rings lies a story of cosmic chaos. Once thought to be as old as the planets ...

Now researchers think they've solved the mystery of one of the longest star-dimming events ever recorded. The star, called ASASSN-24fw, may have disappeared behind a giant planet with an enormous ...

One of the longest stellar dimming events ever observed was likely caused by the gigantic saucer-like rings of either an unseen brown dwarf or ...