A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, ...

Miranda, a small moon of Uranus, has always been a bit of a mystery. Recently, scientists have been curious if it might have ...

The findings also support the idea that Ceres was once an ocean world, similar to Jupiter's moon Europa or Saturn’s moon ...

Scientists have developed a new method to compute how tides affect the interiors of planets and moons. Importantly, the new ...

The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long thought. Instead, ...

Large galaxies, like the Milky Way, attract smaller galaxies. Our solar system 's cosmic neighborhood spans 100,000 ...

The icy moon Miranda is the latest satellite in our solar system to spark hope in the search for life beyond Earth.

Using the Gemini-South telescope, astronomers have performed high-resolution near-infrared spectroscopy of stars in a Galactic globular cluster known as Gran 5. They found that this cluster harbors ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.