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Uranus has 28 known moons in its orbit, but thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists believe they just uncovered ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope discovered a tiny new moon, S/2025 U1, orbiting Uranus, raising its moon count to 29.
The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.
In the space close to the icy planet, outside its ephemeral rings, JWST snapped a tiny object that no one had ever seen ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found an unknown moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total to ...
THE Uranus “lunar gang,” a name given to the 28 moons of the 7th planet “recruited” its newest member currently designated as ...
Astronomers from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have discovered a previously unknown moon of Uranus using NASA's ...
Like the Uranus's other 28 moons, the newfound object spotted by JWST will be named after a William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope character.
Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have discovered a tiny, previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus ...
There’s probably a lot more of them and we just need to keep looking,” planetary scientist Matthew Tiscareno said.
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, ...
A team of astrophysicists at the American research center Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), led by Moroccan scientist Maryame El Moutamid, recently discovered a previously unknown small celestial ...