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 ...
Scientists have discovered that deep trenches on Uranus’ moon Ariel might be pathways for material from its interior to reach ...
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 ...
It gave us our only close-up images of Uranus and discovered 10 new moons. Uranus has 27 moons, five of which may host underground oceans. There is a proposal with NASA to send a Uranus orbiter on ...
The gas planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. They are the furthest planets from the Sun. They each have many moons. They are much bigger than the rocky planets. They're balls of ...
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 ...
On Jan. 13, 1986, astronomer Stephen Synnott, using data collected by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe, discovered three additional moons in orbit around Uranus. Those moons are Desdemona, Rosalind and ...