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A team led by scientists at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Colorado made 10 different 40-minute exposures of ...
The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.
Designated S/2025 U1, the newly discovered moon is so small and faint that astronomers are wondering if Uranus might be ...
The newfound satellite, only about six miles wide, becomes Uranus’ 29th known moon and orbits near the planet’s inner rings.
In the space close to the icy planet, outside its ephemeral rings, JWST snapped a tiny object that no one had ever seen ...
Scientists have spotted a new moon orbiting Uranus that is so tiny it can be circumnavigated in just a few hours.
The Webb Space Telescope has spotted a new tiny moon orbiting Uranus. NASA announced the discovery on Tuesday. The moon ...
Over millions of years, Uranus’s inner moons may have collided and spread out into rings. As the material in the rings ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found an unknown moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total to ...
That was made more pressing by the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera catching a dim, six-mile-wide moon ...
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Why Uranus is tilting more

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, is an enigmatic world that has perplexed astronomers with its extreme axial tilt of ...
This could mean Uranus is still venting some of the heat built up during its long-ago creation. Scientists looked at decades' worth of data, combining reports and readings from various spacecraft ...