Voyager 2’s visit to Uranus in 1986 occurred just after the planet was slammed by an exceptionally powerful solar outburst.

Voyager 2's 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a ...

China's Chang'e-6 robotic spacecraft in June made history by retrieving the first surface samples from the far side of the ...

Rocks returned by China’s Chang’e-6 mission suggest volcanic activity just 2.8 billion years ago but lack telltale heat-generating elements.

The Full Super Moon occults the Pleiades, the ice giant Uranus reaches opposition, and the Leonid meteor shower peaks in the ...