With less than six hours to collect observations, Voyager 2’s findings have shaped much of what is known about Uranus. Earlier interpretations suggested that its moons were geologically inactive.

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 ...

He and his collaborators from Brazil’s National Observatory and from the Valongo Observatory, in Rio de Janeiro, have recently witnessed a rare sequence of occultations and eclipses involving the main ...

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 ...

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 ...

Moons, rings, and the frosty secrets below In addition to the atmospheric discoveries, NASA has also noticed fascinating characteristics in Uranus’ and Neptune’s rings and moons. In the quest for ...