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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 ...
The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.
El Moutamid is the principal investigator of a Webb program dedicated to analyzing the structure and dynamics of the typically hidden rings and inner moons of Uranus. The glow of Uranus’ rings and the ...
Mathematicians calculated where the planet might be based on its effects on Uranus, and astronomers searched for less than an ...
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 ...
The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new moon that is small and dim in orbit around Uranus. The discovery brings ...
“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 ...
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.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a small moon quietly circling Uranus, a world already known for its unusual ...
SAN ANTONIO – A previously unknown tiny moon has been discovered orbiting Uranus. A team led by Southwest Research ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected a new moon, S/2025 U1, orbiting Uranus. This tiny moon, only 10 kilometers in diameter, was missed by V ...
Uranus's moons — what is unique about each moon and why do they orbit at a tilt?