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 spotted a Saturn-sized world drifting through a region of space that theory once said should be almost empty ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have detected a massive, lonely world drifting through the darkness without a star to call home. This ...