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 ...

Since he returned from his doctorate in France, in 1982, the Brazilian astronomer has been continuously registering the celestial revolutions of Uranus and its five largest moons: Miranda, Ariel, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Uranus has always been an intriguing planet ... Further, Saturn’s tilt may also be tied to the migration of its largest moon, Titan. This isn’t an unusual circumstance, either.

Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that ...

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

On its 84 Earth-years orbit of the sun, the blue-green planet Uranus—the third-largest planet in our solar ... images of Uranus and discovered 10 new moons. Uranus has 27 moons, five of which ...

Not only do we have a once-in-a-lifetime green comet soaring through our solar system right now, but some parts of the world will get to watch as the Moon eclipses Uranus, completely hiding the ...

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 ...