Earlier this year, a team of astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus that is minuscule, with a diameter of about 10km.
There are several frozen moons in our solar system, orbiting the gas giants. Some of them, despite having temperatures that would make Antarctica feel tropical, have liquid water under the surface.
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Icy moons in our solar system may have boiling oceans — but life could potentially still survive
Small icy moons in the outer reaches of our solar system may hide boiling oceans underneath their surfaces, a new study finds ...
NASA's Europa Clipper captured this image of a starfield—and the planet Uranus—on Nov. 5, 2025, while experimenting with one ...
Simulations show that subsurface oceans on small moons may hit boiling conditions, potentially creating features like Miranda’s distinctive ridges.
On Nov. 21, the sun in Scorpio will form a direct opposition with Uranus retrograde in Taurus, sparking change that’s just as ...
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Looking Inside Icy Moons
A new study published Nov. 24 in Nature Astronomy sheds light on what could be going on beneath the surface of these worlds ...
The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are ...
That’s also true for the other moons that provide the gravitational stress. As a result, the internal oceans may actually ...
A new moon in the midst of Mercury Retrograde? Expect for all the things to feel amplified right now. Read how this lunation ...
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NASA’s Europa Clipper experiments with star-tracking camera and catches a bonus view—Uranus
N ASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft is on its cruise to explore Jupiter’s mysterious ice moon, Europa. On this path, it clicked ...
The University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium will host a Christmas-themed program, “Star of the Magi,” twice during ...
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