Revisiting old data from Voyager 2, scientists have worked out how a dense, shocked region of the solar wind could have ...

While Mars gets all the attention, the real scientific treasure may be orbiting far beyond it. Uranus and Neptune have ...

The James Webb captures a more panoramic image of stars and galaxies, spectacular visuals that were missed by most other ...

Small icy moons may have hidden oceans that briefly boil under thick ice. Changing pressure inside these moons shapes their ...

December for lovers of astronomy is highlighted by the Geminids meteor shower, as Greg Redern highlights in December’s ...

Uranus will appear opposite the sun in Earth's sky on Nov. 21. November is the best month of 2025 to catch a glimpse of the distant ice giant Uranus as it shines at opposition, though you'll still ...

Kelly Beatty: "Uranus is the third-largest planet in our solar system (three times the diameter of Earth). But its orbit is so far away, nearly 2 billion miles from the Sun, that it looks very dim in ...

Space is inaccessible to the vast majority of us, but it’s not as far away as you might think. The von Kármán Line, which is ...

Get ready because this electric opposition comes with major plot twists Some revelations hit you like lightning, arriving when you least expect them. On Nov. 19, Mercury retrograde in Scorpio will ...

NASA's Europa Clipper captured this image of a starfield—and the planet Uranus—on Nov. 5, 2025, while experimenting with one of its two stellar reference units. These star-tracking cameras are used ...

On November 20, Callisto will begin a transit across the disk of Jupiter at 5:53 A.M. EST. Uranus will reach opposition on November 20 at 7 A.M. EST, presenting the optimal viewing period for the ice ...

Although we have already had a taste of wintry weather, the official start to the astronomical winter season here in the ...