Uranus has 27 moons. They are all named after characters from William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope's works.
Uranus has 5 large moons.
These are so big that if they were orbiting the Sun and not Uranus they would be called dwarf planets.
These large moons are called Titania, Oberon, Ariel, Umbriel, and Miranda.
These moons are made of rock, and water ice.
These were the only moons known about until 1986 when the Voyager 2 spacecraft passed by Uranus.
It found 10 more moons
Uranus has 27 detected satellites.
These moons are divided into three groups:
13 inner moons, 5 major moons, and 9 irregular moons.
The irregular moons have retrograde orbits, while the others are prograde (i.e., they orbit in the same direction as Uranus).
