Fred Schaaf promises plenty of opportunities for spectacular views of the moon, planets and stars these next two weeks.

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Despite being our planet's closest neighbour ... but not identical to Earth. In support of this idea, Professor Williams ...

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

The researchers revealed that Uranus’s protective magnetic field was distorted, and seemed wonky and weak, being squashed and ...

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

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UWE Bristol will play a key role in a new programme to educate more than 10,000 young people in the West of England about ...