Miranda, one of Uranus' most enigmatic moons, may harbor a subsurface ocean, a revelation that challenges long-held ...

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.

Since Voyager 2’s 1986 flyby, scientists have speculated about Miranda’s potential as an “ocean world.” It could harbor a ...

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

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

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

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

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

Miranda, a small moon of Uranus, has always been a bit of a mystery. Recently, scientists have been curious if it might have ...

Miranda is the smallest and innermost of Uranus's five round satellites and orbits the planet around once every 1.4 Earth ...

Uranus’ moon Miranda, once thought to be a lifeless, frozen ball of ice, could actually be hiding vast oceans of liquid water ...

And now, new research based on images taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft has suggested that Miranda, a small Uranian icy moon, may have once possessed a deep liquid water ocean beneath its surface.