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Like the Uranus's other 28 moons, the newfound object spotted by JWST will be named after a William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope character.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope discovered a tiny new moon, S/2025 U1, orbiting Uranus, raising its moon count to 29.
THE Uranus “lunar gang,” a name given to the 28 moons of the 7th planet “recruited” its newest member currently designated as ...
There’s probably a lot more of them and we just need to keep looking,” planetary scientist Matthew Tiscareno said.
Astronomers from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have discovered a previously unknown moon of Uranus using NASA's ...
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 ...
The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.
Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists have discovered a tiny, previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus ...
What else is hiding in the brightness of the outer planets? That was made more pressing by the James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera catching a dim, six-mile-wide moon around Uranus 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, ...
Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has identified a previously ...
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found an unknown moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total to ...