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A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 football fields across was discovered ...
The newfound moon, the 14th member of a system of small moons inside the orbits of the largest moons Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon, is 35,000 miles (56,000 km) from Uranus' center. It ...
A team led by scientists at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Colorado made 10 different 40-minute exposures of Uranus using JWST's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) in order to find the small ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total to 29. The discovery, announced by a team led by the Southwest Research Institute ...
Astronomers using the powerful eye of the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a previously unknown moon whirling around Uranus, according to NASA. The discovery boosts the number of moons known to ...
Moreover, the new moon is smaller and much fainter than the smallest of the previously known inner moons, making it likely that even more complexity remains to be discovered.” All of the moons around ...
A team at the NASA has discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus, and this one is even smaller than the others. A team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) discovered the moon on Feb. 2. They ...
A fresh look at data on Uranus from 1986 has prompted NASA scientists to suggest the planet could support life.
This is an image provided by NASA shows the planet Uranus, taken by the spacecraft Voyager 2 in 1986. (NASA via AP) (Uncredited) NEW YORK – The Webb Space Telescope has spotted a new tiny moon ...
The new member of the lunar gang, announced Tuesday by NASA, appears to be just six miles (10 kilometers) wide. It was spotted by the telescope's near-infrared camera during observations in February.