Artwork: Uranus and its five largest moons had been thought to be inactive and sterile. The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long ...

Ariel, Uranus’s fourth largest moon, is thought to be made of equal parts rock and ice. A new computer model developed at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics could be used to detect ...

New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that an icy moon around Uranus may have an underground liquid ocean. Ariel is one of 27 moons around Uranus, the seventh planet from the ...

These new discoveries likely complete Uranus and Neptune’s moon list down to sizes of between 5 and 8 miles across. But Jupiter and Saturn’s lists extend to even smaller satellites.

The planet Uranus, photographed by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986. The planet and its moons are expected to be the target of NASA’s next major mission to the outer solar system.

Nov. 25, 2024 — A new computer model can be used to detect and measure interior oceans on the ice covered moons of Uranus. The model works by analyzing orbital wobbles that would be visible from ...

January's Wolf Moon was the highest hanging moon of 2025 in the Northern Hemisphere and stays in the sky longer than other ...

At a magnitude of just 5.8, Uranus will be much more difficult than Mars despite being just 32 arcminutes (about the moon's width) from the red planet. However, there is a way to easily see it.

Why we need to go back to Uranus One of the reasons that we need to go back to Uranus, Jasinski says, is to find out whether any of its moons have subsurface liquid oceans. To observe such oceans with ...