DOBSON: Yeah, yeah, a much bigger role. SHAPIRO: Well, how did the tradition come about of naming the moons of Uranus after Shakespeare's characters? DOBSON: It starts very early with Titania and ...

The next largest moon of Uranus is Oberon, which takes its name from the king of the fairies in Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." This moon has a diameter of around 946 miles (1,500 km).

Uranus' new moon, S/2023 U1, is only around 5 miles ... S/2023 U1 will eventually be named after a character from the plays of William Shakespeare, joining the likes of previously discovered ...

Uranus has 28 known moons, 27 of which are named, primarily after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. Miranda is the smallest of Uranus' large moons—after ...

Planetary moons, by convention, derive from Greek mythology, but those of Uranus are named for magical spirits and characters that appear in the works of Shakespeare and Alexander Pope.

"Discovering liquid water oceans inside the moons of Uranus would transform our thinking about the range of possibilities for where life could exist." The chance of liquid oceans hiding beneath ...

Over the last couple of years, planetary scientists have been increasingly calling for a mission to a largely unexplored region of the solar system: Uranus and its moons. Planetary scientists know ...

The chance of liquid oceans hiding beneath the surface of moons orbiting Uranus has enticed NASA to begin planning a new mission that will send a spacecraft to the ice giant. The mission is still ...