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

A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 football fields across was discovered ...

The newfound satellite, only about six miles wide, becomes Uranus’ 29th known moon and orbits near the planet’s inner rings.

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

Over millions of years, Uranus’s inner moons may have collided and spread out into rings. As the material in the rings ...

Uranus has 28 known moons in its orbit, but thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists believe they just uncovered ...

In the space close to the icy planet, outside its ephemeral rings, JWST snapped a tiny object that no one had ever seen ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected a new moon, S/2025 U1, orbiting Uranus. This tiny moon, only 10 kilometers in ...

One of Uranus's moons likely has an ocean while the composition of the planet itself is more bizarre than we knew By Matthew Rozsa Staff Writer Published December 1, 2024 5:30AM (EST) ...

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

Uranus, the ice giant, may have been misunderstood for nearly 40 years A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...