But in the grand scheme of the solar system, Earth's Moon isn't as big as you might think. Oberon is Uranus’s second-largest moon, and like most of its neighbors, it’s a cold, cratered chunk ...

How can Uranus be used to indirectly study its moons and identify if they possess subsurface oceans? This is what a recent ...

Uranus, the mysterious ice giant, has 27 known moons, each named after literary characters from Shakespeare and Alexander ...

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 ...

A 3D breakdown of Uranus’ largest moons. Image source: tussik / Adobe The exact cause and means by which the plasma is being ejected into the solar system are unclear, as the readings we have to ...

If Uranus's moons are found to have interior oceans ... than those that are solid all the way through. However, even the largest oceans will generate only a slight wobble: A moon's rotation ...

The planet may have been impacted by an icy body that vaporized, pushing the planet on its side and helping to form the planet’s tiny moons ... of the biggest question marks about Uranus ...

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 ...

Recent analysis suggests that Uranus and its five largest moons might not be as cold and lifeless as once believed. Instead, these moons could harbor hidden oceans, with conditions potentially ...