Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Ariel, Uranus' second-closest moon, shows bright, fractured terrain that may have formed above a ...

A UND Ph.D. candidate is the lead author on a study exploring the possibility Uranus' moon Miranda hosted a massive subsurface ocean in the last 500 million years. The surface of Uranus' moon Miranda ...

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New research on the Uranian moon Ariel suggests the icy world may be hiding a deep secret. Credit: NASA / JPL Scientists think one of Uranus' moons may once have had an ocean roughly 100 miles deep — ...

They’re running rings around Uranus. New research suggests a moon orbiting the sophomoric-sounding planet might contain enough natural resources to support alien life. Scientists from Johns Hopkins ...

"This was the first time we have collaborated on this scale for an occultation." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA researchers ...

Uranus and Neptune have been called the “ice giants” for decades. But in new research, that nickname might be more a misnomer than anything. A study by the lead researchers astrophysicists Luca Morf ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A ...

Models for the interior structures of the ice-giant planets Uranus and Neptune have two distinct, intermediate layers: an upper, water-rich convecting layer where disorganized magnetic fields are ...

Some of Uranus’ apparent oddities might be due to bad timing. “We just caught it at this freak moment in time,” says Jamie Jasinski, a space plasma physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...