An international team led by researchers in Japan and Europe has discovered a new multi-planet system around a sun-like star, ...

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on ...

When did Pluto become a planet? When Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930, scientists were searching far and wide ...

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

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

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

A fresh look at data on Uranus from 1986 has prompted NASA scientists to suggest the planet could support life.

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

NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured incredible views of the stormy atmosphere of the largest planet in the Solar System on its ...

When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way astronomers ...

Uranus, blue-green in color due to the methane contained in an atmosphere comprised mostly of hydrogen and helium ...

It is big enough to fit 63 Earths inside it. Among the solar system's eight planets, only Jupiter and Saturn are larger. Its ...