Mars is brightening and the giant planet Jupiter is reaching its best apparition in a decade for Northern Hemisphere ...

Mars’ features are starting to become visible, Mercury appears in the evening sky, and the Trifid Nebula glows in the sky ...

Saturn will fade even more in coming months as its rings close ... Telescopes will show the red planet’s north polar region ...

Research on Titan has uncovered a significant layer of methane clathrate ice that explains its shallow craters and warm interior. This discovery offers new insights into Titan's methane-rich ...

Saturn can help orient you. The ringed planet is somewhat low in the southeast to south at nightfall. Now in Aquarius, Saturn ...

Saturn can help orient you ... which generates auroras in its polar regions. Immediately east of the Water Jar is a ring of stars called the Circlet of Pisces. It’s a pretty sight, but you may need ...

Titan, Saturn's largest moon ... While the Sun’s atmosphere is hot everywhere, the polar regions seem to show lower activity in terms of sunspots and solar flares.

The equatorial diameter of Saturn is about 73,000 miles, but the polar diameter is only 66,000 ... By day, however, they would eclipse the sun in the regions covered by their shadow.

Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, holds some of the solar system’s most intriguing mysteries. Among its 28 known moons ...

As the second-largest state, Texas covers an extraordinary amount of the geographical area in the U.S., able to fit 15 of the smallest states together in its boundaries. Because of the size of ...