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Stephanie Pappas

4 of Uranus' biggest moons have secret, underground oceans, new study suggests

Uranus, the 7th planet from the sun, appears as a shiny blue ball surrounded by white rings in this James Webb Space Telescope image

Hidden oceans may lurk under the icy crusts of four of Uranus' moons. 

Scientists recently reanalyzed data from the Voyager spacecraft that flew by Uranus in the 1980s and found that four of Uranus' largest moons — Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon — may be warm enough to host liquid oceans. In Titania and Oberon, these oceans might even be warm enough to potentially support life, according to a recent study in the Journal of Geophysical Research. 

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