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

Life on Earth is possible because we have a magnetosphere that ... To deepen the mystery, the icy moons of the other giant ...

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

Venus is gradually brightening as it swings towards the Earth, and it will grace our evening skies until March. The night sky ...

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

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

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

Astronomers sometimes nickname them "earth grazers," since scorched fragments occasionally make it all the ... The next night ...

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

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

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