In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...

Astronomers have spotted a lonely world roughly the size and mass of Saturn, drifting through the Milky Way without a star to ...

Astronomers just measured the mass of a free-floating planet without a star for the first time ...

How far it is from the sun: 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers), on average How big it is: 72,400 miles (116,500 km) across, or almost 10 times the size of Earth. How many moons it has: At ...

The spacecraft is set to plunge to its death in Saturn's atmosphere in April. — -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft is beginning a series of "ring grazing" orbits today to study Saturn's rings and moons ...

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Saturn encounter, and the Beehive Cluster, as NASA highlights easy-to-see celestial events lighting up winter night skies.

UNDATED (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - Skywatchers are in for a rare treat this weekend as Saturn's iconic rings will appear to "disappear," a phenomenon that hasn't occurred since 2009. The event, known as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, which since 2008 thought to ...

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...