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

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Let’s start by looking southwards. Above the planet Saturn – the brightest ...

As Saturn, the cosmic teacher, grinds to a halt, the approaching Full Moon prepares to converge with breakthrough Uranus. One ...

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

A 2010 satellite image shows dozens of golden islands covered with strange parallel lines shining among the shallow waters of ...

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 ...

But scientists have now discovered that the probe visited at a time of unusual conditions - an intense solar wind event - ...

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

Uranus is not what astronomers have thought it to be for the last several years. Our initial perception of the planet is ...

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

Leonid meteor shower 2024: A visual guide to where and when to view You'll also be able to see some planets on the night of ...

With expanding infrastructure and projects like the Mars rover, China’s program rivals NASA’s, heralding a new era of ...