A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

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 ...

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

(CNN) — When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way ...

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

As the Earth orbits the sun, it pulls itself through comet ... They'll look like a halo surrounding the planet rather than physical rings like you can usually see with Saturn. Opposition happens once ...

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?

Legendary Star Lacks Evidence for Large Planet Construction Ever since the dawn of human consciousness, skywatchers have been ...

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