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Astronomers using the James Webb telescope alongside Canada's CHIME telescope have pinpointed the origin of one of the ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected a new moon, S/2025 U1, orbiting Uranus. This tiny moon, only 10 kilometers in ...
The discovery expands Uranus’s known family of satellites to 29, with the tiny moon measuring just 6 miles across.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a small moon quietly circling Uranus, a world already known for its unusual ...
To estimate distances, the team analyzed the objects' brightnesses across multiple wavelengths to infer redshift, age and ...
A team led by scientists at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Colorado made 10 different 40-minute exposures of ...
New data from the James Webb telescope suggests that Bennu and Ryugu — two asteroids recently visited by sample-return ...
The Webb telescope’s spacecraft element — its combined sunshield and spacecraft bus — undergoing acoustic testing at Northrop Grumman. Chris Gunn/NASA ...
Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have spotted a moon nestled near Uranus’s rings that’s so small you ...
Like Uranus's other 28 moons, the newfound object spotted by JWST will be named after a William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope character.
For now, the tiny new moon has a clunky name, but if it passes peer review, they might call it something better.
NASA scientists at the Southwest Research Institute discovered a 29th moon orbiting Uranus while using infrared detection ...