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.

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 ...

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?

It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...

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

When a celestial body, such as a moon, planet or an asteroid passes in front of another celestial body, blocking its view, we call that an occultation. The word is derived from the Latin occultäre, to ...