A reassessment of data from NASA's Voyager 2 has revealed that Uranus' moon Miranda may contain a subsurface ocean, challenging assumptions about its potential for life.

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

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

As NASA continues to innovate for the benefit of humanity, agency inventions that use new structures to harness sunlight for ...

For the most part, these moons (such as Europa or Enceladus ... a small Uranian icy moon, may have once possessed a deep liquid water ocean beneath its surface. What's more, remnants of that ...

A fresh look at data on Uranus from 1986 has prompted NASA scientists to suggest the planet could support life.

Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun, holds some of the solar system’s most intriguing mysteries. Among its 28 known moons ...

Europa Clipper will peer beneath the moon's icy crust where an ocean is ... That's why Clipper's electronics are inside a vault with dense aluminum and zinc walls. All this radiation would nix ...

A Taranaki man fascinated with space is working on a team that has sent a space probe to one of Jupiter's moons, to learn whether conditions for life exist there.