Two new moons of Neptune, and one new moon of Uranus, have been discovered, taking each planet's total moon count to 16 and ...

Like Uranus’ other moons, it will be named after a character from a Shakespeare plays, but a new name has not yet been chosen, so for now it is S/2023 U1. The tiny moon was spotted using the ...

He and his collaborators from Brazil’s National Observatory and from the Valongo Observatory, in Rio de Janeiro, have recently witnessed a rare sequence of occultations and eclipses involving the main ...

Artwork: Uranus and its five largest moons had been thought to be inactive and sterile. The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long ...

Ariel is named after a character in William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” while Titania and Oberon are from his “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” As part of a planned “Moons of Uranus ...