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The discovery expands Uranus’s known family of satellites to 29, with the tiny moon measuring just 6 miles across.
The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.
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 ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a small moon quietly circling Uranus, a world already known for its unusual ...
Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a newfound moon orbiting icy Uranus, the seventh planet ...
Over millions of years, Uranus’s inner moons may have collided and spread out into rings. As the material in the rings ...
“No other planet has as many small inner moons as Uranus, and their complex inter-relationships with the rings hint at a ...
At just about 10 km (6 miles) in diameter, S/2025 U1 is incredibly small as far as moons go; it’s so tiny that Voyager 2, ...
In the space close to the icy planet, outside its ephemeral rings, JWST snapped a tiny object that no one had ever seen ...
Like the Uranus's other 28 moons, the newfound object spotted by JWST will be named after a William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope character.
Designated S/2025 U1, the newly discovered moon is so small and faint that astronomers are wondering if Uranus might be ...