“Astronomers invented dark matter to explain how you get from a very smooth early universe to big galaxies with lots of empty ...

Potentially dangerous comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, ...

A Southwest Research Institute-led team combined compositional data of primitive bodies like Kuiper Belt objects, asteroids ...

Voyager 2's visit to Uranus may have left us with the complete wrong impression of the ice giant for nearly 40 years, ...

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

The annual Leonids meteor shower is due to peak next week, hopefully giving stargazers a treat to brighten up the dark winter ...

For decades, the observation has been an enigma. But not anymore. Recent analysis of Voyager's old data found that extreme ...

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

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

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

"Solar system formation models using the new solar composition successfully ... element abundances in giant planet atmospheres can tell us about the formation of planets. We already have our eyes on ...