A stellar occultation this month gave scientists an opportunity to scrutinize the seventh planet from the Sun.

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured amazing new imagery of Uranus along with its rings and moons. The footage shows ...

Miranda, the deformed and most undersized of Uranus' large moons, features a patchwork of ridges, valleys, and great cliffs. Scientists consider its mixed-up surface to be the product of intense ...

Two zodiac signs attract financial luck thanks to the super new moon on April 27, 2025. This new moon (which is considered a supermoon because it'll be closest to the Earth in its orbit) is in Taurus, ...

While Voyager 2 was a flyby mission and Cassini spent several years orbiting Saturn and its many moons, the question then becomes which type of mission this passive radar sounding instrument ...

Astronomers spot new tiny moons around Neptune and Uranus Scientists say reining in the exact timing of Uranus’ full rotation took an “innovative method” and used more than a decade of ...

Given Miranda has a radius of just 146 miles (235 kilometers), the ocean would have filled almost half of the moon's body. "That result was a big surprise to the team," Strom said. Key to creating ...

Unlike the collision that helped form the Earth and Moon, the impact between Uranus and this unknown icy object would have generated a wealth of gas and smaller debris. The planet tipped over onto ...

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.

Ariel, Uranus’s fourth largest moon, is thought to be made of equal parts rock and ice. A new computer model developed at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics could be used to detect ...

Nov. 25, 2024 — A new computer model can be used to detect and measure interior oceans on the ice covered moons of Uranus. The model works by analyzing orbital wobbles that would be visible from ...