The term "alert and oriented" (AO) is a medical notation describing a person's level of consciousness and cognition (the ability to understand and learn through thought, experiences, and the senses).

This family of Greek gods can be messy, but the key is to take it one step at a time, or look for one god or goddess at a time. There are a lot of clues and by design, this information is complicated.

A recent study points to an exciting possibility: that Uranus’s moon Miranda, located in the far reaches of our solar system, may harbor a hidden sea beneath its icy crust, making it hospitable to ...

Miranda is the smallest of Uranus’s five round moons, yet it has an exceptionally complex surface. It is defined by intense tectonic activity and varied topography. In fact, it includes some of ...

Recently, though, planetary scientists have been turning their attention further afield, towards the ice giant Uranus, the coldest planet in the solar system. And now, new research based on images ...

Uranus reaches opposition Nov. 16 and is visible all night. It’s in western Taurus, about 6.5° southwest of M45, the Pleiades. At opposition, Uranus stands due south at local midnight ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, which was viewed up close by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1986, has been the focus of more than a few studies over the last few decades. One of the more ...

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope captured an amazing view of the planet Uranus, its rings and moons. Webb's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) snapped the imagery.

They’re running rings around Uranus. New research suggests a moon orbiting the sophomoric-sounding planet might contain enough natural resources to support alien life. Scientists from Johns ...

A new study suggests that extraterrestrials could be hiding just 1.7 billion miles from Earth - on Uranus' moon, Miranda. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory have ...

The tiny world Miranda, one of the moons of the ice giant Uranus, may have a liquid water ocean underneath its surface, according to a paper in The Planetary Science Journal. This places Miranda ...