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Almost 40 years ago, Voyager 2 passed Uranus. Since then, people have been puzzling over the measurement data collected there ...

Earlier this year on June 29, Saturn entered a cycle of retrograde which spanned for approximately four and a half months. In ...

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

Uranus is often called the strangest planet in our solar system. But a new study suggests that the gas giant may not actually ...

From the edge of space, the Sahara Desert looks like it belongs more on the planet Mars than Earth, with the red-tinged dune ...

A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, ...

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

Uranus is not what astronomers have thought it to be for the last several years. Our initial perception of the planet is ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Let’s start by looking southwards. Above the planet Saturn – the brightest ...

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

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