Planetaryscience

Miranda's Unlikely Ocean Has Us Asking If There's Life Clinging On Around Uranus

• Miranda, Uranus’ moon, may have once hosted a ≥100 km thick subsurface ocean. • Voyager 2 data reanalysis and computer modeling suggest recent geological activity. • Tidal heatin

Astronomers are filling in the blanks of the Kuiper Belt

• Kuiper Belt: ring of icy relics beyond Neptune, 30‑50 AU from Sun. • 4,000 KBOs cataloged; expected to grow tenfold with Vera Rubin Observatory’s LSST. • LSST and JWST will map t