In November 2024, a supermoon will illuminate the sky, coinciding with various global festivals such as Kartik Purnima, Loy ...

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

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

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 ...

Astronomers sometimes nickname them "earth grazers," since scorched fragments occasionally ... the club will meet at the ...

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?

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 ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn.

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...