He and his collaborators from Brazil’s National Observatory and from the Valongo Observatory, in Rio de Janeiro, have recently witnessed a rare sequence of occultations and eclipses involving the main ...

it takes 680 days to complete one orbit around Uranus. In comparison, one Mars' moons named Deimos, considered to be among the tiniest known moons in our solar system, is 8 miles (13 km ...

Astronomers have uncovered three new moons, including Uranus’ first in over two decades ... provisionally named S/2002 N5, boasts a size of about 23 kilometers and requires almost nine years ...

Artwork: Uranus and its five largest moons had been thought to be inactive and sterile. The planet Uranus and its five biggest moons may not be the dead sterile worlds that scientists have long ...

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 ...

25, 2024 — A new computer model can be used to detect and measure interior oceans on the ice covered moons ... sights on Uranus recently, allowing scientists to make a direct comparison of ...

On Jan. 13, 1986, astronomer Stephen Synnott, using data collected by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe, discovered three additional moons in orbit around Uranus. Those moons are Desdemona, Rosalind and ...