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Webb telescope spots Uranus’ 29th moon missed by Voyager 2 nearly 40 years ago
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total to 29. The discovery, announced by a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), adds a small but important piece to the picture of Uranus’ dynamic system.
A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 football fields across was discovered ...
Over millions of years, Uranus’s inner moons may have collided and spread out into rings. As the material in the rings diffused, they moved farther away from the planet. Eventually, that material can ...
Designated S/2025 U1, the newly discovered moon is so small and faint that astronomers are wondering if Uranus might be hiding even more moons.
“No other planet has as many small inner moons as Uranus, and their complex inter-relationships with the rings hint at a ...
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