On January 11, 1787, the English astronomer Sir William Herschel discovered two moons at Uranus! Oberon and Titania were the first two Uranian moons ever discovered.

Back in 2022, a team led by Castillo-Rogez reanalyzed data on five of Uranus' largest moons — Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon and Miranda — collected by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft as it flew ...

From January to March, the night sky will host a spectacular parade of planets featuring Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus ...

and potentially moons of Uranus Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon.” For instance, “by measuring the cenotectic of various water-salt solutions that may capture some of the chemistry of Europa ...

1693: The most powerful earthquake in Italian recorded history strikes Sicily and Southern Italy. 1787: Titania and Oberon, moons of Uranus, are discovered by William Herschel. 1861: Alabama secedes ...

Scientists now believe that the planet's magnetic field may be hiding vast oceans on its moons, Titania and Oberon, potentially capable of supporting life. NASA's upcoming mission to Uranus aims to ...

All of Uranus’s five largest moons have extremely different characteristics ... Umbriel’s surface is dark, Titania and Ariel have trenches and faults, and Oberon’s impact craters show bright rays ...

Moons, rings, and the frosty secrets below In addition to the atmospheric discoveries, NASA has also noticed fascinating characteristics in Uranus’ and Neptune’s rings and moons. In the quest for ...

The goal was to find a name for one of Earth's seven known quasi-moons; its provisional designation was the very catchy title of 2004 GU9. Quasi-moons are "moons" that orbit planets and seem to ...

The new moon of January will be at 7:36 a.m. Eastern Time on Jan. 29, according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, and two days later a young moon will pass near Saturn and near Venus as they cluster ...