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

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...

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

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

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 ...

More brilliant than anything in the night sky bar the Moon, Venus is gradually brightening as it swings towards the Earth, ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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