Recent studies led by planetary geologist Chloe Beddingfield from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory indicated that Uranus's moon Ariel could likely harbor a subsurface ocean.

With Uranus climbing the ranks of exploration priorities, Ariel and its enigmatic medial grooves may soon come under closer scrutiny, offering an unprecedented look into the moon's past and ...

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 ...