Astronomers have found three previously unknown moons in our solar system — two additional moons circling Neptune and one around Uranus. The distant tiny moons were spotted using powerful land ...

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 ...

Artwork: Uranus and its five largest moons had been ... and sent back sensational pictures of the planet and its five major moons. But what amazed scientists even more was the data Voyager 2 ...

Uranus' newest moon was first spotted in November ... in the tradition of other moons orbiting the planet. The planet's five major moons — Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon ...

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 ...

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.

Five of the brightest planets will be visible to the naked eye. With help, you may even spot Uranus and Neptune.

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 ...

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.