Hubble's latest observations show Uranus' moons behaving in ways scientists didn't expect, revealing surprising clues about ...

Based on data from NASA's Voyager 2 flyby in 1986 and decades of modeling, scientists expected the trailing hemispheres of ...

The tiny world Miranda, one of the moons of the ice giant Uranus, may have a liquid water ocean underneath its surface, according to a paper in The Planetary Science Journal. This places Miranda ...

Like the ice giant itself, Uranus' moons orbit the sun on their sides and this is just one element that makes them some of the most unusual bodies in the solar system. When you purchase through ...

Uranus’ moons are darker on their leading sides due to space dust, not radiation damage. Titania and Oberon show cosmic “bug splatter,” changing how we understand this tilted world’s mysterious ...

A new study suggests that extraterrestrials could be hiding just 1.7 billion miles from Earth - on Uranus' moon, Miranda. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory have ...

They’re running rings around Uranus. New research suggests a moon orbiting the sophomoric-sounding planet might contain enough natural resources to support alien life. Scientists from Johns ...

While it is comparatively easy to gaze upon neighboring celestial bodies like the Moon and the planets Mars and Venus, Uranus is difficult to see without the most powerful telescopes, such as the ...

Instead, they found no evidence for darkening on the moons’ trailing sides, and clear evidence for darkening of the leading ...

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.

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 ...