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 ... Even if you feel certain that you know how things are going to work out, ...

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

U.S. officials say Biden was convinced by the head of Space Command who argued that moving his headquarters now would ...

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 ...

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

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 ...

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

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

The NASA-funded Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge announced on Tuesday that it will lay off about 5% of its ...

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