Uranus has 28 known moons, 27 of which are named, primarily after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and ...

Uranus has 27 known moons, which are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare and Alexander Pope. Uranus takes approximately 84 Earth years to complete one orbit around the Sun.

One or two of Uranus ' 27 moons - Ariel and/or Miranda - likely have oceans beneath their icy surfaces and are actively spewing material into the space environment, according to a study by NASA.

An enhanced image from the high-powered telescope orbiting in space shows the planet Uranus in stunning new ... and many of its 27 moons. On Monday, NASA released the image, which expands on ...

Uranus radiates more energy than it gets from the sun, two new studies find — just as Jupiter, Saturn and Neptune do.

The three new moons—one orbiting Uranus and the other two orbiting Neptune ... The fainter one, S/2021 N1, is 9.3 miles across, orbits every 27 years, and was a bit tougher to discern.

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 ...

Another study proposed that Uranus once had a large moon that tugged on the home planet until it wobbled too far out of its upright position. This wayward moon, at least the size of Uranus ...

Ariel, Uranus’s fourth largest moon, is thought to be made of equal parts rock and ice. A new computer model developed at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics could be used to detect ...