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

Discover interesting facts about Saturn, its rings and whether it could contain extraterrestrial life.

According to NASA, those rings are believed to be made up of rocky and icy chunks ... “Unfortunately, Saturn will be very close to the Sun in the sky in March, so it will be difficult to catch ...

Credit: Mashable "No spacecraft has ever been this close to Saturn before. We could only rely on predictions, based on our experience with Saturn's other rings ... Sign up for Mashable's weekly ...

This instrument picks up the signal from dust that vaporizes as it hits the fast-moving spacecraft. But the gap between Saturn and its rings is comparitively, and unexpectedly, silent.

The researchers focused on a handful of moons that exist close to or within ... pint-sized moons near Saturn’s rings are likely chunks of the material that makes up the rings, gradually growing ...