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 ...

Uranus has 28 moons that scientists know about, and almost all of them are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. Miranda is one of the smallest of Uranus ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...