Ariel, Uranus’s fourth largest moon, is thought to be made of equal parts rock and ice. A new computer model developed at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics could be used to detect ...

For example, if Uranus's moon Ariel wobbles 300 feet, then it's likely to have an ocean 100 miles deep surrounded by a 20-mile-thick ice shell. Detecting smaller oceans will mean a spacecraft will ...

UTIG is a research unit of the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin. Ariel, Uranus’s fourth largest moon, is thought to be made of equal parts rock and ice. A new ...

An animation demonstrating how Uranus’s moon Ariel might wobble with an interior ocean (right) versus being solid through to the core (left). The depicted wobbles are exaggerated. A UTIG ...

"Discovering liquid water oceans inside the moons of Uranus would transform our thinking about the range of possibilities for ...

A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth. While it is comparatively ...

In 1914 (Eris square Pluto), 23 year-old Caresse Crosby – who would later found the iconic Black Sun Press – patented the ...