If you're looking for something to gaze at before then, the moon and Saturn are going to be very close together on Aug. 20.

In the early hours of Wednesday morning (Aug. 21), the moon and Saturn pulled off quite the vanishing act, though it was rather shortlived. Saturn appeared to abscond behind the moon for around an ...

The moon and Saturn make a great pair in the sky tonight. Saturn and a nearly full moon will rise in southeastern skies just after sunset in the Aquarius constellation. The moon will be bright and ...

NASA had captioned this image as ‘The Moon dressed like Saturn’. While the photo may showcase the moon a bit bigger than its usual size, in reality it is not. The Moon is in a slight crescent ...

Although Saturn and the moon will be low in the sky when the occultation starts, they will be easily visible when the event ends. After Saturn emerges from behind the moon, the large planet will ...

Saturn’s moon Titan is the second largest in the solar system, eclipsed only by Jupiter’s Ganymede. Its surface is not rock, but ice that’s –180°C. This ice is underlain by a global ocean of liquid ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

The ringed planet reaches opposition, Mars slips past the open cluster M35, and the original Cepheid variable shines in the ...

Yet even more alarming troubles are coming for Casey Affleck’s astronaut in “Slingshot,” a sci-fi drama about a trip to Saturn’s largest moon. The title refers to a vehicular gambit in ...

While the seasons will soon begin to change, there are still a couple of opportunities for stargazers to enjoy sights in the summer sky before the onset of astronomical autumn ...

The various motions of celestial bodies and the cosmos, including the planets, their rotations on different planes and at different periods — result in a range of phenomena. Notable astronomical ...