“To find evidence of an ocean inside a small object like Miranda is incredibly surprising,” said Dr. Tom Nordheim, who is a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) ...

And now, new research based on images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft has suggested that Miranda, a small Uranian icy moon, may have once possessed a deep liquid water ocean beneath its surface.

One of Uranus's moons likely has an ocean while the composition of the planet itself is more bizarre than we knew. ... Now a trio of recent studies has revealed that one of its moons, Miranda, ...

Out of Uranus’ large moons, Miranda is the smallest at about 290 miles in diameter, or about one-seventh the size of Earth’s moon.

Among the 288 moons orbiting the planets in our solar system, the scientists say that Miranda 'stands out'. Images snapped by NASA's Voyager-2 spacecraft back in 1986 showed that the moon's ...

Some of Uranus' moons show signs of having subsurface liquid oceans where life might be possible. A mission to the Uranian moon system could help planetary scientists learn more about the ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer mission, which launched on April 14, 2023, captured a unique view of the Earth, its moon and Uranus, which, like Jupiter, is a gas giant.

Astronomers announced that they have discovered new moons around Neptune and Uranus.. The International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center published its findings Friday, showing the first ...

Uranus’ new moon is the first to be discovered around the ice giant in more than 20 years and is likely the smallest of its 28 moons. The moon is only 5 miles wide (8 kilometers) and takes 680 ...

Astronomers have discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus — the first spotted in nearly 20 years — and two new moons around Neptune. CNN values your feedback 1.

Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, ... When the Voyager 2 spacecraft cruised past Miranda in 1986, it captured images of its southern hemisphere.

Possible internal oceans . Back in 2022, a team led by Castillo-Rogez reanalyzed data on five of Uranus' largest moons — Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon and Miranda — collected by NASA's ...