Saturn gets close to the moon tonight, and skywatchers in Florida, northwestern South America, the Caribbean and Central America will see the ringed planet briefly disappear behind our lunar companion ...

Viewing Saturn with the naked eye isn't ideal; if you don't use a good backyard telescope or pair of binoculars, Saturn will be indistinguishable from any bright stars in the sky. The best way to view ...

Saturn and the moon Tuesday and Wednesday nights (May 13-14) just before midnight as viewed from the U.S. Midwest. Stellarium 38 degrees today in Duluth with a chill wind off Lake Superior. Must be ...

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The Moon will continue to draw closer to the ringed planet until 9:45 pm tonight when they will be separated by about 5 arc minutes. Your little finger on your outstretched hand is about a degree wide ...

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On Dec. 21, after drawing visibly closer and closer in the night sky over the past few months, Jupiter and Saturn will appear the closest they have since March 4, 1226, nearly 800 years ago. They were ...

Southwest Research Institute scientists have compiled 41 solar occultation observations of Saturn’s rings from the Cassini mission. The compilation, published recently in the scientific journal Icarus ...

This week, we’re focused on the Moon as Tuesday brings us three amazing events. The September Full Moon occurs Tuesday evening, bringing us the year’s Harvest Moon and the second of four stunning ...

The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days later a young moon will pass near Saturn and near Venus as they cluster ...

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Scientists have compiled 41 solar occultation observations of Saturn's rings from the Cassini mission. The compilation will inform future investigations of the particle size distribution and ...