From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...

The Aquarian new moon on January 29 is an invitation to dip your toes into new experiences, especially when it comes to ...

The planets (minus Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, which were not discovered yet in Eisinga's day) are to scale by a factor of 1 trillion, therefore 1 millimetre on the ceiling represents 1 million ...

Ayrshire poet Rab Wilson, in his book Oor Big Braw Cosmos, points out that with the discovery of Uranus in 1781, six planets were known when Burns was alive – Neptune was later identified in 1846, and ...

On Thursday, the Moon in Leo forms a tense square with Uranus in Taurus, sparking a surge of restless energy in the daily horoscope that urges you to break free from creative routines and embrace ...

On Jan. 13, the sun in Capricorn will meet with Uranus retrograde in Taurus in an exhilarating trine, which could shake things up in a big way. This exhilarating aspect (happening at the midpoint ...

On Jan. 13, 1986, astronomer Stephen Synnott, using data collected by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe, discovered three additional moons in orbit around Uranus. Those moons are Desdemona, Rosalind and ...

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 shows ...

Giggle. This film explores the evolution of our understanding of the solar system, highlighting the significant discovery of Uranus by William Herschel in 1781. It discusses how the Voyager 2 ...

We recently reported on the amateur scientific work of Forrest Mims. Forrest is somewhat unique in being an amateur scientist who has consistently published his work in leading scientific journals ...