Life on Earth is possible because we have a magnetosphere that ... To deepen the mystery, the icy moons of the other giant ...

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

An astronaut from NASA had to be attended by the doctors. He was taken to hospital for an undisclosed medical problem when he come back from a nearly ...

Venus is gradually brightening as it swings towards the Earth, and it will grace our evening skies until March. The night sky ...

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

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

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

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 make it all the ... The next night ...

Uranus, blue-green in color due to the methane contained in an atmosphere comprised mostly of hydrogen and helium ...