A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

By sheer chance we may have visited the seventh planet when things weren’t normal and have misunderstood it ever since.

Fred Schaaf promises plenty of opportunities for spectacular views of the moon, planets and stars these next two weeks.

More brilliant than anything in the night sky bar the Moon, Venus is gradually brightening as it swings towards the Earth, ...

Uranus has long been thought to have been a completely "dead" planetary system - but now experts are not so sure.

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA’s robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986.

Astronomers sometimes nickname them "earth grazers," since scorched fragments occasionally ... the club will meet at the ...

Uranus, blue-green in color due to the methane contained in an atmosphere comprised mostly of hydrogen and helium ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

The penultimate planet, our best measurements suggest, has a whole slew of idiosyncrasies. And one of the most puzzling is ...