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 ...
The inner and major moons all have prograde orbits, while orbits of the irregulars are mostly retrograde. The inner moons are small dark bodies that share common properties and origins with Uranus's ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has captured amazing new imagery of Uranus along with its rings and moons. The footage shows ...
In that image, 11 of Uranus’s 13 known rings could be seen, but the final two were too faint to show up. Read more Moons around Uranus may suddenly develop atmospheres in the spring JWST has now ...
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 a passing spacecraft.
A scientist simulated the contents of the ice giant worlds, and found that a fluid layer may explain each planet’s strange ...
Voyager 2’s flyby of the sideways-rotating Uranus revealed previously unknown rings and moons around the planet. But the ...
A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...
Artwork: Uranus and its five largest moons had been thought to be inactive and sterile. [SPL] The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have ...
Its unusual tilt makes Uranus appear to orbit the sun like a rolling ball. Uranus, which orbits almost 20 times further from ...
The researchers revealed that Uranus’s protective magnetic field was distorted, and seemed wonky and weak, being squashed and ...
New analysis of Voyager 2 data suggests that a solar storm may have skewed our understanding of Uranus and its moons.