The view was acquired on Sept. 14, 2017 at 19:59 UTC (spacecraft event time). The view was taken in visible light using the ...

The discovery points to what astronomers have thought for decades, that Saturn's rings were caused by a massive collision ...

The JWST Saturn aurora project ... will be conducted using the powerful space telescope's highly sensitive Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument. Once these findings are in hand, scientists ...

Saturn did not escape Webb's notice ... with a diameter of 100,000 light years and an estimated 100 billion stars. Webb's Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) allowed scientists to look through the ...

A shell of icy objects at the edge of the solar system known as the Oort cloud has a pair of spiral arms that resemble a miniature galaxy, new research suggests.

Framed in this single, starry, telescopic field of view are two open star clusters, M35 and NGC 2158. Less-bright, non-blue stars like our Sun surely also exist in this M41 star cluster but are harder ...

The nearly 12-foot optical and infrared telescope is one of the largest in the world. Using the telescope, in one night, Ashton took about 44 photos of Saturn over a three-hour long exposure.