NASA’s Voyager 2 became the first and still only spacecraft to fly by Uranus, offering humanity its first close-up look at this mysterious, icy giant. Orbiting over 1.8 billion miles from Earth, ...

On July 7, change-maker Uranus will make its debut in Gemini for the first time in almost a century. Discover what this means ...

What methods can be used to identify subsurface oceans on the five largest moons of Uranus: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and ...

It makes perfect sense. Unfortunately, Uranus stubbornly refuses to make sense. It is the leading side of two of these moons that has somehow darkened, as if they are the wrong way around.

The moons that orbit Uranus are already known to have unusual characteristics: some are heavily cratered, others have ...

Uranus has 28 confirmed moons, including five major moons. The closest of these large satellites is Miranda, followed by Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon — all named after characters from ...

"Uranus is weird, so it's always been uncertain how much the magnetic field actually interacts with its satellites." ...

However, new Hubble Space Telescope observations of Uranus' four largest moons — Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon — show no clear signs of the expected radiation damage, Christian Soto of ...

The unexplored secrets of Uranus are still far out of reach, and the latest observations of the icy planet’s moons have added yet another mystery to the fold. On the hunt for clues about the planet’s ...

The complicated magnetic environment of 'weird' Uranus The four moons in this study—Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon—are tidally locked to Uranus, so that they always show the same side to ...

Icy—and potentially watery—moons populate Uranus’ orbit A montage of some of Uranus’ moons, from left to right: Puck, Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon NASA ...