Evidence points to a long-lost ocean beneath Ariel’s icy crust. Tides and orbit shifts may have cracked its surface billions of years ago. Growing evidence indicates that a deep ocean may lie hidden ...

Scientists think one of Uranus' moons may once have had an ocean roughly 100 miles deep — about 40 times deeper than the ...

Scientists think Uranus’s moon Ariel once had a hidden ocean beneath its icy shell. The moon’s orbit stretched enough to ...

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

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

One of Uranus' moons, Miranda, could have a liquid ocean beneath its icy surface that might even harbor extraterrestrial life. If so, this would place Miranda among the few worlds in our solar system ...

An unsuspecting moon lurking in our solar system has a secret ocean of water that might even harbor extraterrestrial life, scientists have suggested. The tiny world Miranda, one of the moons of the ...

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.

Interest in icy moons has been growing steadily as they become more and more interesting to astrobiologists. Some take the majority of the attention, like Enceladus with its spectacular geysers. But ...

What if our understanding of Uranus and Neptune's compositions have been wrong, specifically regarding their classifications ...

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Astronomers with the International Astronomical Union have discovered three previously unknown moons at the farthest planets of our solar system — two circling Neptune and one around Uranus. The moons ...