I enjoy marking day’s end, beginning of nighttime, with a glance to the dazzling white Evening Star low in the ...

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

On Earth, the magnetic field of our planet points a compass north, but in space, things are a bit more complicated.

Mercury goes retrograde from Nov. 25 until Dec. 15, with no shortage of passed-down mythologies and theories.

Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

In 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained ...

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

In 1986, Voyager 2 flew by the ice giant Uranus. It was humanity’s first close-up view of the outer planet, and it remains the closest any spacecraft has ever come. On this trip, the spacecraft ...

Astrology suggests that retrograde periods, despite being optical illusions, encourage introspection and reevaluation.