Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Ariel, Uranus' second-closest moon, shows bright, fractured terrain that may have formed above a ...

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 Hopkins ...

New research on the Uranian moon Ariel suggests the icy world may be hiding a deep secret. Credit: NASA / JPL Scientists think one of Uranus' moons may once have had an ocean roughly 100 miles deep — ...

A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth. While it is comparatively ...

When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus and Neptune 40 years ago, astronomers were surprised that it detected no global dipole magnetic fields, like Earth's. The explanation: the ice giants are layered and ...

"This was the first time we have collaborated on this scale for an occultation." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA researchers ...