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

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

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.

This is a good opportunity to get a feeling for just how fast the Moon is moving through night sky. Look each hour and you'll ...

Saturn gets close to the moon tonight, and skywatchers in Florida, northwestern South America, the Caribbean and Central ...

November’s major meteor shower ramps up as the Moon reaches perigee shortly before its Full phase in the sky this week.

Tengrinews.kz - For years, scientists have observed intriguing "patterns" on Venus known as tesserae, unique features found ...

Of all the astronomical objects visible in a telescope, none has captured human imagination more than the planet Saturn.

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

The annual Orionid meteor shower peaked over the weekend, but we’re far from finished with the opportunity to see the show.

Venus is the brilliant evening “star” now shining at magnitude -4 in the southwest at dusk. In early November—five months after its passage behind the sun at superior conjunction on June 4—Venus ...