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The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.
The newfound satellite, only about six miles wide, becomes Uranus’ 29th known moon and orbits near the planet’s inner rings.
Uranus has 28 known moons in its orbit, but thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists believe they just uncovered ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found an unknown moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total to ...
The discovery expands Uranus’s known family of satellites to 29, with the tiny moon measuring just 6 miles across.
Uranus' 29th moon was hidden inside the planet's dark inner rings, new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...
Over millions of years, Uranus’s inner moons may have collided and spread out into rings. As the material in the rings ...
In the space close to the icy planet, outside its ephemeral rings, JWST snapped a tiny object that no one had ever seen ...
Roll out the cosmic welcome mat for our solar system’s newest resident: a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus. The Webb ...
If plans are in flux, don’t fret — the sun will square Uranus retrograde on Aug. 24, and this Mutable synergy is nothing ...
Scientists have spotted a new moon orbiting Uranus that is so tiny it can be circumnavigated in just a few hours.
Like Uranus's other 28 moons, the newfound object spotted by JWST will be named after a William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope character.