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The James Webb Space Telescope has captured amazing new imagery of Uranus along with its rings and moons. The footage shows ...
But why is it so important to learn more about Uranus' largest moons like Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon and whether or not they possess subsurface oceans? "The existence or non ...
On Tuesday, April 22, 2025, four zodiac signs are the universe’s favorites. This day takes our wildest dreams and makes good ...
THE Earth’s ocean could one day turn purple – and scientists say it used to be a totally different colour. The Earth’s seas ...
Where does life lurk under the ice of Antarctica? The answers keep surprising us. In January, for example, researchers found corals, sponges and even giant sea spiders some 750 feet under the ...
The James Webb Space Telescope was late to launch, but the observatory is making up for lost time. After several years of operation, Webb has captured some truly stunning cosmic vistas, complete ...
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 ...
Uranus and Neptune, the most distant planets ... star-like points, while Miranda is only observable with telescopes of 400 mm or larger. Neptune appears as a small but clearly discernible bluish ...
If human life existed on the planet Uranus, it’s likely the same phenomenon might happen. But now we know that a single day on Uranus is 28 seconds longer than astronomers first calculated in ...
The upshot is that we now know that a day on Uranus takes 17 hours, 14 minutes, and 52 seconds, or 28 seconds longer than the best previous estimate made by NASA’s Voyager 2 during its 1986 flyby.