In November 2024, a supermoon will illuminate the sky, coinciding with various global festivals such as Kartik Purnima, Loy ...

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus decades ago shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained oddities. A recent data dive has offered answers. In 1986, Voyager 2's flyby ...

Anbernic's newest console is the RG 406H, a horizontal handheld that's gaining ergonomic features from the RG Cube and will ...

Thankfully, software like Stellarium can give you a fantastic virtual observing experience. Imagine you want to see Saturn's ...

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

The night sky at around 10pm this month (Nigel Henbest) Considerably dimmer, but still outshining the stars in the western ...

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.

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?

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