Surface features of Uranus' icy moon Miranda point to the existence of a once deep ocean, one that still may exist today.

Freezing cold, dark and with an atmosphere that smells like farts and rotten eggs? Uranus doesn’t sound like somewhere you’d want to call home. But let’s say you did want to move to Uranus. What kind ...

The icy moon Miranda is the latest satellite in our solar system to spark hope in the search for life beyond Earth.

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus's moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, ...

Miranda is the smallest and innermost of Uranus's five round satellites and orbits the planet around once every 1.4 Earth ...

He noted that this finding contributes to the notion that several of Uranus’s moons might host oceanic environments, an ...

“To find evidence of an ocean inside a small object like Miranda is incredibly surprising,” said Tom Nordheim, a planetary ...

New research indicates that Uranus's moon Miranda may be hiding a subsurface ocean, challenging many assumptions about its ...

You may need binoculars or a telescope for this one. It includes the three furthest planets in our solar system.

Night sky observers always factor in the moon to determine the best time for astronomy viewing, especially for the two meteor ...

Mars is brightening and the giant planet Jupiter is reaching its best apparition in a decade for Northern Hemisphere ...

Rare planetary alignments, known as major conjunctions, have coincided with significant events in human history. The recent ...