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

Thankfully, software like Stellarium can give you a fantastic virtual observing experience. Imagine you want to see Saturn's ...

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

To deepen the mystery, the icy moons of the other giant planets leak water ions, which feed the plasma rings that form part ...

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 ...

Discoveries about Uranus, the solar system's enigmatic planet, challenge previous assumptions, highlighting the need for ...

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

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

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

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.