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?
After five days of nearly non-stop snowfall, Colorado faced its largest November snowstorm in decades. The snow stopped ...
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 ...
Tengrinews.kz - For years, scientists have observed intriguing "patterns" on Venus known as tesserae, unique features found ...
It's 'spoke season' on Saturn when strange features appear in the planet's rings. The Hubble Space Telescope continues to ...