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.
More brilliant than anything in the night sky bar the Moon, Venus is gradually brightening as it swings towards the Earth, ...
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 ...
Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA’s robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986.
Like the Earth, the Sun likely has swirling polar vortices, according to new research led by the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for ...
Astronomers sometimes nickname them "earth grazers," since scorched fragments occasionally ... the club will meet at the ...
Uranus, blue-green in color due to the methane contained in an atmosphere comprised mostly of hydrogen and helium ...
Model simulations offer insights into the fundamental properties of the solar magnetic field. New studies suggest that the Sun, like Earth, has polar vortices influenced by its magnetic environment. U ...
In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.