Given Miranda has a radius of just 146 miles (235 kilometers), the ocean would have filled almost half of the moon's body. "That result was a big surprise to the team," Strom said. Key to creating ...

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.

Numerical models suggested that, at some point, Miranda was in resonance with some of its nearby moons. But, later, this orbital resonance started desynchronizing, and the moon’s insides got ...

New research suggests a moon orbiting the sophomoric-sounding ... and the University of North Dakota say the lunar object, named Miranda, has sources of water hidden below its surface.

The Uranian moon Miranda may contain a liquid water ocean, according to a team of researchers that recently mapped the satellite’s surface and modeled tidal stress on it. The team published its ...

Miranda, a small, icy moon of Uranus, is one of the most visually striking and enigmatic bodies in the solar system. Despite its relatively small size, Miranda appears to have experienced an ...

Why it matters: For decades, Miranda – the small, icy moon of Uranus – was thought to be nothing more than a frozen hunk of rock and ice. However, new research from Johns Hopkins University is ...

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This tiny celestial ball orbits the sideways planet Uranus. That moon, Miranda, the smallest of Uranus’ major moons — just 235 km across — was discovered 75 years ago, today. Uranus is a ...

When a celestial body has wildly different hemispheres, like our Moon, it turns heads. But with Uranus’ nearest major satellite, Miranda, the odd appearance goes off the charts into the Pablo ...

The strange appearance of Uranus' moon Miranda may finally have an explanation. Miranda resembles Frankenstein's monster — a bizarre jumble of parts that didn't quite merge properly. Now ...

Miranda is one of the moons orbiting the planet ... This finding has implications for another moon with an ocean, Enceladus, which orbits Saturn. Because of the strong magnetosphere of its host ...