Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers discovered that Ariel, a moon of Uranus, could be hiding in a buried liquid water ocean. The discovery could supply an answer to a mystery ...

New observations by the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that an icy moon around Uranus may have an underground liquid ocean. Ariel is one of 27 moons around Uranus, the seventh planet from the ...

For instance, they calculated that if Uranus’s moon Ariel wobbles just 300 feet during its orbit, it likely contains a 100-mile-deep ocean protected by a 20-mile-thick ice shell. This technique ...

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 ...

One or two of Uranus ' 27 moons - Ariel and/or Miranda - likely have oceans beneath their icy surfaces and are actively spewing material into the space environment, according to a study by NASA.

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 ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) found significant amounts of carbon dioxide ice on the surface of Uranus' moon Ariel. The carbon dioxide ice was discovered on the "trailing hemisphere" of ...