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 ...

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

Throughout the history of professional wrestling, most wrestlers' ring names aren't actually their real names ... which saw ...

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?

New Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Saturn show it's 'ring spokes' in orbit around the gas giant planet. Credit: ...

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 ...