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

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 ...

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

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

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.

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 ...

In 1980, the U.S. space probe "Voyager One" came within 124,000 kilometres of Saturn, sailing beneath the planet's rings while transmitting data to Earth. In 1981, the balloon "Double Eagle V," ...

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

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

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