We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

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

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

In 1781, German-born British astronomer William Herschel made Uranus the first planet discovered with the aid of a telescope.

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

In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, scientists have successfully integrated a crucial ...

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

‘Pluto got reclassified because it turns out there are a lot of small Pluto-like things that formed in a somewhat different way than the 8 major planets of our solar system.’ However, this ...

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

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

The Martian calendar, established in 1955, counts years from the "great dust storm of 1956," a significant event in Mars' ...