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

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

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

you'll likely need a 12-inch telescope at minimum with a magnification of around 200-300 times. They'll look like a halo surrounding the planet rather than physical rings like you can usually see with ...

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

Vega provided the first telescopic evidence of a disk of planet-forming material, but there are no planets to be found around ...

Averting your gaze when viewing the ringed planet can cause an optical phenomenon that might make you think twice about what ...

When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...

November’s major meteor shower ramps up as the Moon reaches perigee shortly before its Full phase in the sky this week.

It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn.