This image captured aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn moons Enceladus and Tethys in perfect alignment. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) It's like a lunar eclipse, only better, because this has never been seen by humans before. The Cassini spacecraft, which has been studying Saturn from the planet's orbit, got a stunning view of two moons perfectly aligned on Sept. 24. Using its narrow-angle camera, the spacecraft captured an image of Enceladus and Tethys lined up just right from afar. "At relatively...

It appears as though Santa and his reindeer won't be the only things flying through the night sky on Christmas Eve. is slated to fly by Earth, about 6.7 million miles away but still visible to those who are scouting with their telescopes – assuming they have clear, cloudless skies, of course. "The 2015 apparition is the first of five encounters by this object in the next 12 years when itwill be close enough for a radar detection," the planning...

Saturn's largest moon Titan glows greenish in this new composite image from NASA. (NASA) In a new infrared composite image, Saturn's largest moon glows green and blue, almost like an alter-ego of our own planet Earth. Dubbed "" by the Daily Mail, Titan's coloration in this image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft is due to an infrared mapping spectrometer that penetrated through the hazy atmosphere to show a detailed glimpse of Titan's surface. The image was taken during the T-114...