Growing evidence suggests that a subsurface ocean lurks beneath the icy surface of Uranus' moon Ariel, but new research, ...

Ariel, one of Uranus' icy moons, may once have concealed a vast ocean more than 100 miles (170 kilometers) deep beneath its ...

Our Solar System, like a sneaky little hobbit, seems to have stuffed its pockets full of hidden oceans. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all have moons astronomers think might be harboring liquid ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A ...

(Nanowerk News) Scientists using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope went looking for evidence of one phenomenon and found quite another. The research team studied the four largest moons of the ice giant ...

For decades, Uranus baffled scientists because it seemed to have no internal heat. Now, new computer modeling shows the ...

When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus and Neptune 40 years ago, astronomers were surprised that it detected no global dipole magnetic fields, like Earth's. The explanation: the ice giants are layered and ...

A NASA research team including the University of Idaho Physics Professor, Dr. Matthew Hedman, discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus. The team used imagery captured from NASA's James Webb Space ...

Uranus’ moon Ariel may look like a frozen, airless world today, but new research suggests that beneath its icy crust, it may once have held an ocean more than 100 miles (170 kilometers) deep. That ...