Studying how much the Uranian moons sway in orbit may reveal whether or not they have oceans inside of them. NASA is in the ...

The proposed mission, known as Uranus Orbiter and Probe (UOP), would conduct a multiyear orbital tour to yield knowledge of ...

One of Uranus's moons likely has an ocean while the composition of the planet itself is more bizarre than we knew ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, it captured grainy photographs of large ice-covered moons. Now nearly 40 years ...

By exploring Uranus’s moons, scientists aim to refine the tools and models necessary to search for life in similarly extreme ...

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 ...

Nasa’s Voyager 2 flyby in 1986 provided the only close-up look at Uranus. Nearly 40 years later, scientists are looking back at this data and finding out the visit happened during a strange ...

Much of our understanding of Uranus comes from Voyager 2's flyby, which to date remains the only time a spacecraft has visited the planet. Voyager 2's data on the magnetosphere surrounding Uranus ...

Diamond rain? Super-ionic water? These are just two proposals that planetary scientists have come up with for what lies ...

The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long thought. Instead, they may have oceans, and the moons may even be capable of supporting life, ...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech For sure, it was a far-reaching recommendation: The planet Uranus and its moons should be NASA's highest-priority new flagship mission for startup in the decade 2023-2032.