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Uranus' 29th moon was hidden inside the planet's dark inner rings, new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...
The discovery expands Uranus’s known family of satellites to 29, with the tiny moon measuring just 6 miles across.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a small moon quietly circling Uranus, a world already known for its unusual ...
A team led by scientists at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Colorado made 10 different 40-minute exposures of ...
Scientists have discovered a new, elusive moon around Uranus, making it the 29th natural satellite known to orbit the ice ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found an unknown moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total to ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, the solar system's tilted seventh planet. This new space discovery brings the ice giant world's bevy of moons up ...
JWST discovers S/2025 U1, a hidden 6-mile moon orbiting Uranus that Voyager 2 missed, bringing the ice giant's total moon ...
For now, the tiny new moon has a clunky name, but if it passes peer review, they might call it something better.
Like Uranus's other 28 moons, the newfound object spotted by JWST will be named after a William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope character.
Even though S/2025 U1 is pretty tiny, measuring only 10km wide, the team behind the moon spotting say that it's big news.
Astronomers from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have discovered a previously unknown moon of Uranus using NASA's ...