Above the planet Saturn – the ... hanging like a tiny lantern in the twilight glow to the west. More brilliant than anything ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

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

Stargazing has got to be the easiest hobby in the galaxy. All you have to do is get somewhere really dark, away from any light pollution and look up at a clear night sky. While simply staring up at ...

Much of the knowledge about Uranus was gleaned when NASA's robotic spacecraft Voyager 2 conducted a five-day flyby in 1986 ...

Uranus has long been thought to have been a completely "dead" planetary system - but now experts are not so sure.

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

If Voyager 2 had arrived a week earlier, it would have observed a completely different magnetospheric environment".