A groundbreaking new study has uncovered surprising revelations about the moons of Uranus, challenging existing theories of how these moons interact with the planet’s magnetic field. Researchers, ...

The moons that orbit Uranus are already known to have unusual characteristics: some are heavily cratered, others have ...

This material causes Titania and Oberon to have darker and redder leading hemispheres. These outer moons effectively shield ...

Researchers armed with the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed that some of Uranus' largest moons have one side brighter ...

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 ...

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.

Some bright spark, conscious of jokes about the planet’s name, decided to name all Uranus’s moons after Shakespeare characters, choosing respectable names like Rosalind and Oberon. This does ...

This James Webb Space Telescope image of Uranus, released last December, shows nine of the planet's moons, which are named after characters in the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope ...

The moon is new. Morning stars are Jupiter, Mars, Neptune, Saturn and Uranus. Evening stars are ... On this date in history: Related Shakespeare book returned to N.J. library 100 years overdue ...

Miranda is just one of 28 known moons of Uranus, with most being named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. Out of Uranus’ large moons, Miranda is the ...

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 ...