Much of what we understand about Uranus comes from data gathered by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Thirty-eight years ago, this ...

A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...

In the decades since Voyager 2, technology has advanced, and so has our understanding of what’s required to peel back the ...

AN ocean full of alien life could be hiding on an icy moon system not far from earth, in what scientists have called an ...

"To find evidence of an ocean inside a small object like Miranda is incredibly surprising," said Tom Nordheim, a planetary ...

As he explains, the outer layers of Uranus are lacking in oxygen, which is required for combustion. It might not even help to pump in more oxygen than is contained in the entire solar system.

Since Voyager 2’s 1986 flyby, scientists have speculated about Miranda’s potential as an “ocean world.” It could harbor a ...

Recently, though, planetary scientists have been turning their attention further afield, towards the ice giant Uranus, the coldest planet in the solar system. And now, new research based on images ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. If you’ve never seen the seventh planet, Uranus, here comes one of the easiest chances you’ll get. In the early hours of ...

The tiny world Miranda, one of the moons of the ice giant Uranus, may have a liquid water ocean underneath its surface, according to a paper in The Planetary Science Journal. This places Miranda ...

A recent study suggests that Uranus’ small moon Miranda may have a hidden ocean beneath its icy surface, challenging what ...

The rebellious essence of Uranus calls us to break free ... This, of course, happens just in time for Pluto’s return to ...