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The newfound satellite, only about six miles wide, becomes Uranus’ 29th known moon and orbits near the planet’s inner rings.
Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus in images taken by Webb’s NIRCam ...
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a small moon quietly circling Uranus, a world already known for its unusual ...
The discovery expands Uranus’s known family of satellites to 29, with the tiny moon measuring just 6 miles across.
The James Webb Space Telescope has ended decades of missed detections by spotting S/2025 U1, a tiny, faint Uranian moon so ...
Like Uranus's other 28 moons, the newfound object spotted by JWST will be named after a William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope character.
Uranus’s five moons, large enough to be nearly spherical, form a middle band, separating the inner system and those further out, some of which are probably captured comets or asteroids. The new ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has recently made headlines with its discovery of a mysterious object orbiting Uranus, ...
The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.
Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have discovered a tiny, previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus ...
In the space close to the icy planet, outside its ephemeral rings, JWST snapped a tiny object that no one had ever seen ...