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A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 football fields across was discovered ...
Many of us will know Uranus as the seventh planet from the sun or as the butt of a cosmic joke. This incredibly cold, ice ...
“No other planet has as many small inner moons as Uranus, and their complex inter-relationships with the rings hint at a chaotic history that blurs the boundary between a ring system and a system of ...
The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.
Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have spotted a moon nestled near Uranus’s rings that’s so small you could walk around it ...
Designated S/2025 U1, the newly discovered moon is so small and faint that astronomers are wondering if Uranus might be hiding even more moons.
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new moon that is small and dim in orbit around Uranus. The discovery brings ...
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 uncovered a small moon quietly circling Uranus, a world already known for its unusual ...
The nights following Sept. 12 are a great time to observe the shifting play of light over the vast Montes Apenninus mountain ...
Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. The Webb telescope’s observations of Uranus are giving scientists better insight into ...