Skygazers will soon be able to see the moon appear larger and brighter than normal for the last time until next year. The ...

If you use binoculars or a telescope to look at them, you may be able to identify certain defining features, like Mars' reddish color, Jupiter's Galilean moons and even Saturn's rings. Comets are ...

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

Uranus is often called the strangest planet in our solar system. But a new study suggests that the gas giant may not actually ...

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

An astronaut from NASA had to be attended by the doctors. He was taken to hospital for an undisclosed medical problem when he come back from a nearly ...

The night sky at around 10pm this month (Nigel Henbest) Considerably dimmer, but still outshining the stars in the western ...

"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

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

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 ...