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

The glow of Uranus’ rings and the moon’s tiny size ... Hubble and ground-based telescopes have spotted an additional 13 tiny moons, which range from 8 to 10 miles (12 to 16 kilometers) across and ...

“No other planet has as many small inner moons as Uranus, and their complex inter-relationships with the rings hint at a chaotic history that blurs the boundary between a ring system and a system of ...

Its location within Uranus' dark inner rings (the planet has 13, divided into an inner system and an outer pair) likely explains why it went undetected for so long. An official name for the newly ...

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 ...

A team led by the Southwest Research Institute and including University of Idaho’s Matthew Hedman, a professor of physics, ...

Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have spotted a moon nestled near Uranus’s rings that’s so small you could walk around it ...

A previously unknown tiny moon has been discovered orbiting Uranus.A team led by Southwest Research Institute’s Dr. Maryame ...

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a newfound moon orbiting icy Uranus, the seventh planet from the sun. The moon, known as S/2025 U1, is just 6 miles (10 kilometers) ...

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.

While it does have somewhat of an awkward name, Uranus has actually been called the boring planet, and at first glance, it does look rather calm and yes, even boring, but underneath its placid blue ...