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

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

As a child, I loved such trips, and they helped cement my passion for the night sky, and for all things space. One of my ...

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

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

Almost 40 years ago, Voyager 2 passed Uranus. Since then, people have been puzzling over the measurement data collected there ...

Stargazing has got to be the easiest hobby in the galaxy. All you have to do is get somewhere really dark, away from any light pollution and look up at a clear night sky. While simply staring up at ...

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

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

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

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 ...