For some context, Uranus' four largest moons -- Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon -- are all tidally locked. This means that one side of each moon constantly faces the planet while the other ...

The complicated magnetic environment of 'weird' Uranus The four moons in this study—Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon—are tidally locked to Uranus, so that they always show the same side to ...

Webb imaged Enceladus recently, and while it can't see details of the tiny moon itself, it was able to see the 6,000-mile plume of water leaking from its surface. 26. Titan Clouds and Surface ...

Thanks to the free-for-all that is modern cat-naming antics, you’ve kind of got free reign when it comes to naming your fluffy little buddy. However, since nothing is too weird to work as a ...

A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth. While it is comparatively ...

Our understanding of Uranus might have been all wrong for nearly 40 years. In January 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft zoomed past Uranus as part of a grand tour of the outer solar system.

Here’s how it works. Uranus’ icy moon Miranda, captured by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft on Jan. 24, 1986. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) ...

Why it matters: For decades, Miranda – the small, icy moon of Uranus – was thought to be nothing more than a frozen hunk of rock and ice. However, new research from Johns Hopkins University is ...

And now, new research based on images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft has suggested that Miranda, a small Uranian icy moon, may have once possessed a deep liquid water ocean beneath its surface.

Out of Uranus’ large moons, Miranda is the smallest at about 290 miles in diameter, or about one-seventh the size of Earth’s moon.

Uranus’ moon could be home to aliens — scientists reveal ‘bizarre’ new find By Alex Mitchell Published Oct. 30, 2024, 6:43 p.m. ET ...

Could a moon that orbits Uranus billions of miles away have an interior ocean? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers ...