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

The night sky at around 10pm this month (Nigel Henbest) Considerably dimmer, but still outshining the stars in the western ...

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 ...

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

"The Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 revealed an unusually oblique and off-centred magnetic field," the researchers wrote.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

We’ve sifted through the latest offerings from TV and streaming platforms to find the best shows you should be watching this ...

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