New research suggests a moon orbiting the sophomoric-sounding planet might contain enough natural resources to support alien ...

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

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In that image, 11 of Uranus’s 13 known rings could be seen, but the final two were too faint to show up. Read more Moons around Uranus may suddenly develop atmospheres in the spring JWST has now ...

AN ocean full of alien life could be hiding on an icy moon system not far from earth, in what scientists have called an ...

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

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

The images are a massive step up from the Hubble Space Telescope's attempt, which can barely make out one faint ring around Uranus. The newly enhanced image shows details of the planet's seasonal ...

"The suggestion of an ocean inside one of the most distant moons in the solar system is remarkable," a researcher said.

However, unlike Saturn, Uranus and its rings are 'tilted' almost completely sideways, like a spinning top that has fallen over. This means that as the planet orbits the Sun, each of its poles ...