GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - On July 16, Saturn will be visible next to the Moon.

In J. R. R. Tolkien's masterpiece of a novel, The Lord of the Rings, time seemed to move differently for mortals in the Elven ...

The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 has officially kicked off, and fans are over the moon about the relative closeness of the story to Tolkien's lore. Given that anything beyond the ...

The shredded moon formed Saturn’s rings, and its loss let Saturn’s tilt angle relax a bit to its present-day value of about 27 degrees (3). A doomed moon Credit: E. Otwell, adapted from M. El ...

This precession is why you can see Saturn’s rings at a variety of angles throughout its orbit. IMAGE: Artistic rendering of the moon Chrysalis disintegrating in Saturn’s intense gravity field. The ...

New models suggest Saturn's gravity shredded a moon, Chrysalis, about 160 million years ago. The ancient moon could explain two long-standing mysteries: Saturn's iconic rings and dramatic tilt.

However, no study so far has definitively spotted rings around any of the solar system's 300-odd moons. (A 2008 study claiming that Jupiter's moon Rhea possessed a ring turned out to be a false ...

A lunar halo, or ring around the moon, is more frequently seen than other lunar sights. Learn what causes it and when to spot one in the night sky.

Wednesday’s moon was in the waning gibbous stage, with an illumination of 89%. The next full moon with 100% illumination is on Sunday, Dec. 15. The December full moon is known as the Cold Moon.