Exploring Alien Oceans: NASA’s Bold Mission to Uranus’ Moons
Nearly 40 years after Voyager 2's journey, NASA plans to revisit Uranus to explore its moons for hidden liquid water oceans, using a new computer model. This model analyzes the moons' rotational wobbles to infer the presence and size of subsurface oceans.
NASA’s Signature Moon-Exploration Missions Are Delayed—Again
The space agency pushed the next launch under the exploration program into April 2026 while President-elect Donald Trump’s space team starts to form.
NASA delays moon missions again, citing safety concerns
NASA on Wednesday announced another delay to its first crewed lunar mission since Apollo, with astronauts now set to fly around the moon in 2026 and land in 2027. The delay means the Artemis II — the next flight in NASA’s Artemis moon program that looks to return humans to the lunar surface for the first time in more than 50 years — will launch
NASA announces further delays Artemis moon missions
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA Administrator Bill Nelson announced on Thursday new delays in the U.S. space agency's Artemis program to return astronauts to the moon for the first time since 1972,
NASA Delays First Moon Landing in More Than 50 Years to 2027
NASA is delaying its first moon landing in more than 50 years by several months to 2027, as engineers at the agency race to fix critical safety issues with the hardware and adjust plans needed for future flights.
NASA's first astronaut flight around the moon in decades faces more delays
NASA announced more delays Thursday in sending astronauts back to the moon more than 50 years after Apollo. Administrator Bill Nelson said the next mission in the Artemis program -- sending four astronauts around the moon and back – is now targeted for April 2026.
NASA once again delays astronaut moon landing, pushing to 2027
The Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the moon this decade amid a renewed international push for lunar exploration, is facing more delays.
NASA pushes back astronaut flights to the moon again
NASA announced more delays Thursday in sending astronauts back to the moon more than 50 years after Apollo. Administrator Bill Nelson said the next m
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NASA's Next Mission to Uranus: Searching for Liquid Water Oceans on Icy Moons
Do the moons of Uranus have interior liquid oceans like the moons of Jupiter and Saturn? This is what a recent study ...
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New Study Says Time Is Now For Thorough Probe Of Uranus
Most of humanity’s knowledge about Uranus came from a 1986 Voyager 2 flyby on “a particularly windy day.” A new study says ...
From Diamond Rain to Hidden Oceans: The True Secrets of Uranus and Neptune
New research at UC Berkeley offers a fresh perspective on Uranus and Neptune's interiors, indicating layered structures of ...
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Uranus and its icy moons: Broadening the search for alien life
By exploring Uranus’s moons, scientists aim to refine the tools and models necessary to search for life in similarly extreme ...
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New theory unveils the hidden layers of Uranus and Neptune
What lies beneath the thick, bluish atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune? For decades, scientists have speculated about the ...
Vast Oceans of Water May Be Hiding Within Uranus and Neptune
A scientist simulated the contents of the ice giant worlds, and found that a fluid layer may explain each planet’s strange ...
Neptune and Uranus might be home to hidden oceans
New research claims that Neptune and Uranus may hold hidden oceans of water and other materials below their extreme ...
Secret oceans could exist in our solar system; new UT model aims to find them
Researchers at the University of Texas have developed a computer model that can detect liquid water on the moons of Uranus by ...
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Uranus's swaying moons will help spacecraft seek out hidden oceans
A new computer model can be used to detect and measure interior oceans on the ice covered moons of Uranus. The model works by analyzing orbital wobbles that would be visible from a passing spacecraft.
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Huge Water Oceans Might Be Lurking Deep Within Uranus And Neptune
Neptune is similar in size to Uranus but not exactly a twin. It is more massive but smaller. The model suggests a thinner ...
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What lies beneath the bland surfaces of Uranus and Neptune?
Uranus and Neptune are unique but superficially bland ice giants in our solar system. Planetary scientists have devised two ...
Uranus is weirder than we thought: Scientists report new mysteries of the tilted planet
One of Uranus's moons likely has an ocean while the composition of the planet itself is more bizarre than we knew ...