Back in 2022, a team led by Castillo-Rogez reanalyzed data on five of Uranus' largest moons — Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon and Miranda — collected by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft as it flew ...

Since he returned from his doctorate in France, in 1982, the Brazilian astronomer has been continuously registering the celestial revolutions of Uranus and its five largest moons: Miranda, Ariel, ...

In a celestial event known as a great alignment the five planets will be discernible with the naked eye, but to see Neptune ...

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 ...

If Uranus's moons are found to have interior oceans ... than those that are solid all the way through. However, even the largest oceans will generate only a slight wobble: A moon's rotation ...

Uranus has always been an intriguing planet ... Further, Saturn’s tilt may also be tied to the migration of its largest moon, Titan. This isn’t an unusual circumstance, either.

Alignments of five or more planets are rare—there will be two more featuring five or more planets this year, but after that ...

On its 84 Earth-years orbit of the sun, the blue-green planet Uranus—the third-largest planet in our solar ... images of Uranus and discovered 10 new moons. Uranus has 27 moons, five of which ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Corrected, Aug 19, 2024: The article has been slightly edited to make ...