Finding a planet is one thing; proving it is a planet when it has no star is the part that usually breaks the story. A newly ...

Astronomers have finally weighed a wandering “rogue” planet, uncovering a Saturn-mass world flung into the galaxy after a ...

Astronomers have confirmed a Saturn-size world drifting alone in deep space roughly 10,000 light-years from Earth, a discovery that turns a once-theoretical idea into a measured reality. The planet ...

Most of the planets we’ve identified are in orbit around stars and formed from the disks of gas and dust that surrounded the ...

In doing so, they found this orphan is within the same weight class as Saturn, strengthening the case that the galaxy teems ...

How far it is from the sun: 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers), on average How big it is: 72,400 miles (116,500 km) across, or almost 10 times the size of Earth. How many moons it has: At ...

We’ve been many months without a bright planet in the night sky, but that’s all about to change! On the night of Sunday, Sept. 21, the ringed planet Saturn officially returns to the evening sky, and ...

I’ve had a love affair with the planet Saturn ever since I first saw it through my first telescope nearly 60 years ago. Even though the image was tiny, I could see the ring system around the great ...

Every 27 to 29½ years, the planet Saturn returns to the same sign and degree it occupied at the time of our birth. This cosmic event, known as the Saturn return, can profoundly impact our lives, ...