A possible new dwarf planet has been discovered at the edge of our solar system, so far-flung that it takes around 25,000 ...

Jupiter and Saturn will be so close today that they will appear to form a "double planet." Such a spectacular great conjunction, as the planetary alignment has come to be known, hasn't occurred in ...

This December, Jupiter and Saturn will put on a show for skygazers that hasn’t been seen in roughly 800 years. Astronomers are calling it the Great Conjunction of 2020. On December 21 ...

All through the summer and into the fall, the two gas giants of the solar system, Jupiter and Saturn, have been calling attention to themselves in the southern evening sky. Jupiter of course ...

On Dec. 21, the winter solstice, Jupiter and Saturn will appear nearly aligned, resulting in an event so uncommon it’s befitting of the saying. At one time, astronomers may have felt it so ...

This year is different. On Dec. 21, Jupiter and Saturn — which are actually separated by more than 400 million miles — are expected to appear closer to each other in the night sky than they ...

Hey, so guess what? Another rare celestial event? Bingo! On Monday, August 19, at exactly 5:46 p.m. ET, Jupiter and Saturn will meet — forming a 90-degree angle, a “square” in astrologyspeak ...

I don’t think a lot of people know that all four giant planets in our solar system have rings; Saturn’s are by far the most obvious, but Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune own a set themselves.

Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are lining up — in that order — for the first time since December 2004. On Friday, June 24, the phenomenon will be the most visible to stargazers.

Now scholars believe they have cracked another great Jupiter mystery — namely, why it lacks the spectacular rings flaunted by its celestial neighbor, Saturn. As a very massive gas giant with ...

On August 28th, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune, and Saturn will align for our viewing pleasure. The best time to catch sight of this rare planetary parade is early morning, just before ...

While it won't appear strawberry-red, the Moon is named after the wild strawberries that start to ripen during early summer, ...