Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun, captivates scientists with its massive size, stunning rings, and diverse moons. Composed primarily of hydrogen and helium, it lacks a solid surface.

With its beautiful rings, Saturn may be the most stunning planet in the solar system. It is the sixth planet from the sun and ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space rock. The space agency released the images Monday, a day after the close ...

Lucy’s next stop — “the main event,” as Levison calls it — will be the Trojan asteroids that share Jupiter’s orbit around the sun. Swarms of Trojans precede and follow the solar system’s largest ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Discover the planet that has the most moons. This planet is a ringed giant and the second largest in the solar system.

It is the sixth planet from the sun and the second-largest planet in the solar system, after Jupiter. Saturn's beautiful ... according to NASA. The rings are named for the order in which they ...

The astounding fact is the planet’s young age, which could help unveil some of the Universe’s lesser-known facts. What makes the discovery ... It has a third of the mass of Jupiter. We could say that ...

Isaac Asimov described the solar system as the sun, Jupiter, and debris ... Its surface is a frosty 10,000°F, which, as NASA notes, is still hot enough to make diamonds boil.

Space is loaded with strange things—black holes, pulsars, gigantic clouds of alcohol, and more weird planets than you could count. Even our own solar system has some oddballs—like Neptune.

UNLV geoscientist Arya Udry shares what motivates her in studying space, her work on the Mars Perseverance mission, and the world of knowledge a meteorite can bring.