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The July full moon, also known as the Buck Moon, occurs on July 10. It will share the evening sky with Mars and Saturn.
Could aliens exist on Saturn’s moon Titan? With its thick atmosphere and methane lakes, Titan is one of the most promising ...
Venus moves east as July progresses and stands 3° due north of Aldebaran on the 14th, after skirting the northern regions of ...
Visible in the early-morning sky today, Saturn’s two-toned moon Iapetus reaches superior conjunction just 1.4′ due south of Saturn. The proximity makes the now-11th-magnitude moon easier to find, as ...
There will be several chances to see the shadow of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, pass across the ringed planet's Earth-facing ...
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, casts its shadow across the gas giant in a series of rare shadow transits. This unique ...
A mere decade ago, astronomers knew of just 62 moons around Saturn. Astronomer Edward Ashton is no exception, even though he has helped to discover 192 of them—he thinks that’s the total ...
With 128 new moons for Saturn, it might take a while to come up with names that follow the IAU rules. Maybe we’ll even see the addition of different mythologies.
He fell into hunting for Saturn’s moons in 2018, when his then academic adviser suggested the project for his Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia. It has been a fruitful search.
The first new moon of summer is here — and it's a powerful one. The new moon in Cancer occurs on June 25 at 6:31 a.m. ET.