The moon has been an important subject in English poetry dating back to Chaucer in the 14th century, who was an astronomer as ...

What methods can be used to identify subsurface oceans on the five largest moons of Uranus: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon, and Miranda? This is what a recent study presented at the 56th Lunar ...

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.

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 is weirder than we thought: Scientists report new mysteries of the tilted planet One of Uranus's moons likely has an ocean while the composition of the planet itself is more bizarre than we ...

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.

After traveling some 1.8 billion miles to reach Uranus 38 years ago, Voyager 2 gathered its data on the planet in less than six hours, discovering ten new moons and two rings alongside the void ...

The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long thought. Instead, they may have oceans, and the moons may even be capable of supporting life, ...