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New data from the James Webb telescope suggests that Bennu and Ryugu — two asteroids recently visited by sample-return ...
Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have spotted a moon nestled near Uranus’s rings that’s so small you ...
NASA scientists at the Southwest Research Institute discovered a 29th moon orbiting Uranus while using infrared detection ...
Uranus' 29th moon was hidden inside the planet's dark inner rings, new observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...
Even though S/2025 U1 is pretty tiny, measuring only 10km wide, the team behind the moon spotting say that it's big news.
Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a newfound moon orbiting icy Uranus, the seventh planet ...
Like the Uranus's other 28 moons, the newfound object spotted by JWST will be named after a William Shakespeare or Alexander Pope character.
To estimate distances, the team analyzed the objects' brightnesses across multiple wavelengths to infer redshift, age and ...
Astronomers from the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) have discovered a previously unknown moon of Uranus using NASA's ...
THE Uranus “lunar gang,” a name given to the 28 moons of the 7th planet “recruited” its newest member currently designated as ...
For now, the tiny new moon has a clunky name, but if it passes peer review, they might call it something better.
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate whether the most distant star identified in the universe is, ...