Figuring out the day length of Earth is more complicated than you might imagine. While on average a day is 24 hours long, ...

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...

Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...

The half-lit lunar disk will rise alongside the ringed giant Saturn and dimmer Neptune in the early morning hours of June 19, ...

Though Saturn is famous for its rings, all of the other giant planets — including Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune — have ring systems. But Saturn stands out for having beautiful yellow and gold ...

The Buck Moon rises on July 10. The full moon of July, also called the Buck Moon, will rise on July 10.

A six-pack of planets will line up and light up the night sky this month, folks. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune will align for our viewing pleasure from now until mid-February.

They looked at the planet's gravitational pull and combined that with estimates of the core's density. After some tricky statistical analysis, they found that a day on Saturn is 10 hours, 32 ...

The king of planets. Following Saturn as far as rise times in our summer skies is the largest planet in the solar system. Jupiter reaches opposition on Aug. 19.