Samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have revealed clues about a primordial magnetic field that helped ...

The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the sterile worlds scientists have long thought.

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.

On Oct. 14, 2024, NASA launched a robotic spacecraft named Europa Clipper to Jupiter’s moons. Clipper will reach the ...

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, ...

For nearly 40 years, scientists have generally agreed that Earth's Moon formed from debris after a massive collision with our ...

A team of European researchers led by Tallinn University of Technology has taken a unique approach to driving the robots.

In 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus shaped scientists’ understanding of the planet but also introduced unexplained ...

Placing a mass driver on the moon has long been a dream of space exploration enthusiasts. It would open up so many ...

New research suggests that just before Voyager 2 arrived, Uranus was hit by a rare blast of solar wind from the Sun that ...

unlike the other moons in the outer solar system. They also showed that Uranus’s protective magnetic field was strangely distorted. It was squashed and pushed away from the Sun. A planet’s ...