Sharpen your pencils and gird your loins, folks. Saturn, our dream-crushing planet of structure and limits, is going direct ...

In November 2024, a supermoon will illuminate the sky, coinciding with various global festivals such as Kartik Purnima, Loy ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...

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

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

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

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

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

They'll look like a halo surrounding the planet rather than physical rings like you can usually see with Saturn. Opposition happens once a year for each planet in the solar system except Venus and ...

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?

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 ...