A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, may harbor a hidden ocean and life.

Scientists think one of Uranus' moons may once have had an ocean roughly 100 miles deep — about 40 times deeper than the Pacific Ocean — and could still possibly hold remnants of it. New computer ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Ariel, Uranus' second-closest moon, shows bright, fractured terrain that may have formed above a ...

Miranda, one of the moons of Uranus, has always been considered a cold, lifeless world, far from the Sun and unlikely to support any form of life. However, recent research is turning that assumption ...

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 a passing spacecraft.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found that Ariel, a moon of Uranus, has some of the most carbon dioxide-rich deposits in the solar system, hinting at a buried water ocean. When ...

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Why it matters: For decades, Miranda – the small, icy moon of Uranus – was thought to be nothing more than a frozen hunk of rock and ice. However, new research from Johns Hopkins University is ...

Could a moon that orbits Uranus billions of miles away have an interior ocean? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of researchers ...

A UND Ph.D. candidate is the lead author on a study exploring the possibility Uranus' moon Miranda hosted a massive subsurface ocean in the last 500 million years. The surface of Uranus' moon Miranda ...

Miranda does not look like a typical small moon. The surface, seen in detail only once during Voyager 2’s flyby in 1986, carries scars that seem out of scale with its size. Wide fault systems cut ...

New research on the Uranian moon Ariel suggests the icy world may be hiding a deep secret. Credit: NASA / JPL Scientists think one of Uranus' moons may once have had an ocean roughly 100 miles deep — ...