It makes perfect sense. Unfortunately, Uranus stubbornly refuses to make sense. It is the leading side of two of these moons that has somehow darkened, as if they are the wrong way around.

NASA scientists found evidence of darkness on the 'leading side' of Uranus' moons, which they expected to be bright.

Researchers armed with the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed that some of Uranus' largest moons have one side brighter than the other — but not the side they were expecting.

The identity of Uranus' magnetosphere remains elusive, and now the researchers are saying it could be even more complicated than previously thought. It may not be very active after all, or perhaps, ...

Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope went looking for evidence of one phenomenon and found quite another.

Meanwhile, some of the moons are named after Shakespeare and Alexander Pope characters – Titania, Oberon, Miranda, and Umbriel, for example. Uranus' moons orbit in the planet’s equatorial plane, which ...

Uranus, the mysterious ice giant, has 27 known moons, each named after literary characters from Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. Unlike other planets, its moons have a distinct, almost ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, it captured grainy photographs of large ice-covered moons. Now nearly 40 years later, NASA plans to send another spacecraft to Uranus, this time ...

Uranus has a set of rings and 27 known moons, most of which are named after characters from Shakespeare’s plays. While its rings aren’t as flashy as Saturn’s, they’re still pretty interesting. And ...

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.

Why it matters: For decades, Miranda – the small, icy moon of Uranus – was thought to be nothing more than a frozen hunk of rock and ice. However, new research from Johns Hopkins University is ...