The Moon meets the Red Planet’s rival in Scorpius, skims close to Saturn, and reaches New phase in the sky this week.

Also visible is Saturn's largest and brightest moon, mid-8th-magnitude Titan, located some 40" from the center of the planet this evening, to its west. Tenth-magnitude Dione and Tethys may also be ...

Saturn also. possesses at least nine larger satellites or moons, and probably a tenth (Thermis ... Q 0:1 10 7 Name of Satellite Mimas Eneeladus Thetis.... Dione Rhea Titan Hyperion..

The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days ...

On this date, Jan. 29, 1859, American astronomer William Cranch Bond died. Cranch and his son, George Phillps Bond, ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the ...

Get your binoculars out! On Saturday (Jan. 4), skywatchers in the U.K. and most of Western and Central Europe will be able to see Saturn vanish behind the crescent moon — an event known as a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A stunning new photo captures the moon and Saturn engaged in a cosmic game of peek-a-boo. On Jan.

On this date, Jan. 26, 1981, NASA Voyager 1 probe discovers Saturn’s moon, Epimetheus. Saturn would be the last planet Voyager 1 would visit before beginning its ongoing journey out of the solar ...

Venus and Saturn form a slowly changing compact group in the eastern sky near sunrise August 12–13: Venus and Jupiter, the two brightest planets, are only separated by two moon-widths in the ...