Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Saturn is already visible in the post-sunset night sky, but ...

It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...

The combined observations in visible and infrared light reveal new details about the planet's atmosphere and rings. Hubble's images help track seasonal changes, while Webb's infrared vision probes ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope have produced a detailed paired view of Saturn, and the images are doing more than just looking pretty. Taken weeks apart, the two ...

The secret has been hiding in plain view for 40 years. But it took the insight of a veteran astronomer to pull it all together within a year, using observations of Saturn from NASA’s Hubble Space ...

This is a montage of Hubble Space Telescope views of our solar system's four giant outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, each shown in enhanced color. The images were taken over nearly ...

The combined observations in visible and infrared light reveal new details about the planet's atmosphere and rings. Hubble's images help track seasonal changes, while Webb's infrared vision probes ...

Saturn is truly the lord of the rings in this latest snapshot from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, taken on July 4, 2020, when the opulent giant world was 839 million miles from Earth. This new Saturn ...

In the grander scheme of our solar system, Saturn may seem unspectacular. It’s the sixth planet from the Sun, and the second largest in our neighborhood, and not the only one to have rings. Yet the ...

This GIF shows a fast-paced light show on the north pole of Saturn, as captured by the European Space Agency’s Hubble Space Telescope in April and May of 2013. The ...