The little we understood about the five moons of Uranus was primarily derived from NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft ... a series of detailed images from Jupiter, showing all of the minute details.

Skywatchers on Thursday evening, Feb. 6, will notice an eye-catching pairing-off between two of the brightest objects in the ...

The moon and Jupiter will appear close together in the night sky, forming a line with the Aldebaran star, on Thursday, ...

NASA's Juno spacecraft has discovered a giant volcanic hot spot on the surface of Jupiter's hellish moon Io. The eruptions in ...

Unfortunate timing The first panel of this artist's concept depicts how Uranus's magnetosphere – its protective bubble – was behaving before the 1986 flyby of NASA's Voyager 2. The second panel ...

I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern ...

The moon will have a magnitude of minus 12.6, while Jupiter will have a magnitude of minus 2.7 (lower and/or negative numbers indicate brighter objects in the sky). At this brightness, the moon ...