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

A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, ...

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.

From the edge of space, the Sahara Desert looks like it belongs more on the planet Mars than Earth, with the red-tinged dune ...

On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese ...

A 2010 satellite image shows dozens of golden islands covered with strange parallel lines shining among the shallow waters of ...

With expanding infrastructure and projects like the Mars rover, China’s program rivals NASA’s, heralding a new era of ...

It's the final supermoon of 2024. Skywatchers are in for a celestial treat as November brings a variety of astronomical ...

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

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