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2024: APL's Richard Cartwright used observations of Uranus' moon Ariel by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to conclude the moon may have a subsurface ocean that's replenishing its surface ...

A stellar occultation this month gave scientists an opportunity to scrutinize the seventh planet from the Sun.

Passive radar sounding using Uranus' natural radio emissions, known as Uranian Kilometric Radio (UKR), could help study its five largest moons—Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon—for ...

The Moon’s illumination is given at 12 P.M. local ... 3:49 A.M. Now is the time to catch your last views of Uranus before the planet drops out of sight, too close to the Sun for observation ...

But Mercury retrograde wrapped up on April 7, paving the way for clearer thinking, while Venus stations direct just one hour after the Pink Moon peaks on April 12, bringing some ease and comfort to ...

The moons .f Uranus, in contrast to their primary, revolve in a retrograde or backward direction-their orbital plane being just past the critical position of perpendicularity. Notwithstanding the ...

Miranda, the deformed and most undersized of Uranus' large moons, features a patchwork of ridges, valleys, and great cliffs. Scientists consider its mixed-up surface to be the product of intense ...

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 ...

Unlike the collision that helped form the Earth and Moon, the impact between Uranus and this unknown icy object would have generated a wealth of gas and smaller debris. The planet tipped over onto ...

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 ...