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 ...

An animation demonstrating how Uranus’s moon Ariel might wobble with an interior ocean (right) versus being solid through to the core (left). The depicted wobbles are exaggerated. A UTIG ...

Uranus's irregular moons have elliptical and strongly inclined (mostly retrograde) orbits at large distances from the planet. William Herschel discovered the first two moons, Titania and Oberon, in ...

New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that an icy moon around Uranus may have an underground liquid ocean. Ariel is one of 27 moons around Uranus, the seventh planet from the ...

They’re running rings around Uranus. New research suggests a moon orbiting the sophomoric-sounding planet might contain ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers discovered that Ariel, a moon of Uranus, could be hiding in a buried liquid water ocean. The discovery could supply an answer to a mystery ...

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.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) found significant amounts of carbon dioxide ice on the surface of Uranus' moon Ariel. The carbon dioxide ice was discovered on the "trailing hemisphere" of ...