The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.

A team led by scientists at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Colorado made 10 different 40-minute exposures of ...

For decades, scientists puzzled over why Uranus seemed colder than expected. Now, an international research team led by the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered a new moon that is small and dim in orbit around Uranus. The discovery brings ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a small moon quietly circling Uranus, a world already known for its unusual ...

For now, the tiny new moon has a clunky name, but if it passes peer review, they might call it something better.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus.NASA announced the discovery on Tuesday ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, is an enigmatic world that has perplexed astronomers with its extreme axial tilt of ...

Facebook X Reddit Email A pale blue-green enigma, the planet Uranus has long fascinated astronomers precisely because of its extreme distance, some 1.6 billion miles (2.6 billion km) from Earth.

This is puzzling because at the distance Uranus and its moons exist from the sun, 20 times further out from the sun than Earth, carbon dioxide turns to gas and is lost to space.

Earth’s orbit around the sun permits three opportunities to view the rings edge-on: Uranus made its first ring crossing as seen from Earth on May 3, it made its second crossing on Aug. 16, and ...