With its huge rings of ice and dust, Saturn is one of the Solar System's most iconic planets. It's beautiful, really. But ...

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.

Scientists have developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons. Importantly, the new ...

One of the best-timed shots in TV history is an old clip by BBC's science presenter James Burke which has recently become ...

have been gravitationally bound to the gas giants Jupiter or Saturn. Recently, though, planetary scientists have been turning their attention further afield, towards the ice giant Uranus ...

November’s major meteor shower ramps up as the Moon reaches perigee shortly before its Full phase in the sky this week.

Saturn has finally joined its fellow solar system giant planets as the parent of trailing ... That is, if Saturn wants to hang with its fellow gas giants and ice giants. In fact, even smaller ...

Gaseous giant Saturn seems to have snatched its first known ... especially if the “ringed planet” wants to hang with its fellow gas and ice giants. It is worth noting that even smaller ...

"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

Saturn has finally joined its fellow solar system giant planets as the parent of trailing asteroids ... That is, if Saturn ...

People thinks over Saturn’s awe-inspiring system of rings that enclose the gas giant to be the most fascinating and iconic ...