Like the ice giant itself, Uranus' moons orbit the sun on their sides and this is just one element that makes them some of the most unusual bodies in the solar system.

Last night Uranus reached opposition. We tracked it over 4 hours to make this video showing the movement of the planet and its four brightest moons (Titania, Oberon, Umbriel and Ariel) against the ...

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 ...

Uranus’ moon could be home to aliens — scientists reveal ‘bizarre’ new find By . Alex Mitchell. Published Oct. 30, 2024, 6:43 p.m. ET. They’re running rings around Uranus.

A full-sized wide shot of Uranus captured by the James Webb Space Telescope on Feb. 6, 2023 shows six of the planet's 27 known moons. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. DePasquale (STScI)) ...

Uranus’ new moon will have a dramatic name. The planet Uranus now has 28 known moons. The new moon is temporarily named S/2023 U1, but it will eventually be named after a character from a ...

The magnitude of these variations provides the first measurement of the mass and density of the moon Cressida (m=2.5±0.4×10 17 kg and ρ=0.86±0.16 g/cm 3) or, indeed, any of Uranus' small inner ...

Uranus' icy moon Miranda was photographed by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft on January 24, 1986. Miranda may have a subsurface ocean that could harbor microbial life. The inset is a stock image of ...

Two of Uranus’ moons may be home to active oceans hidden beneath their surfaces. The new finding was uncovered when astronomers looked back at radiation data that Voyager 2 captured about the ...

Uranus is one of the most distant worlds in our solar system — and one of the most dangerous for the moons orbiting it. Lawrence Sromovsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison/W.W. Keck Observatory ...