The newfound satellite, only about six miles wide, becomes Uranus’ 29th known moon and orbits near the planet’s inner rings.

The provisionally named S/2025 U1 is so small it had gone unnoticed by probes and telescopes for the past 40 years.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found an unknown moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s total to ...

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

In the space close to the icy planet, outside its ephemeral rings, JWST snapped a tiny object that no one had ever seen ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, is an enigmatic world that has perplexed astronomers with its extreme axial tilt of ...

For decades, scientists puzzled over why Uranus seemed colder than expected. Now, an international research team led by the ...

Designated S/2025 U1, the newly discovered moon is so small and faint that astronomers are wondering if Uranus might be ...

Scientists have spotted a new moon orbiting Uranus that is so tiny it can be circumnavigated in just a few hours.

Voyager 2’s data showed that Uranus’ magnetosphere was home to unexpectedly powerful electron radiation belts. Their intensity was similar to the massive bands of radiation found around Jupiter.

Uranus, the ice giant, may have been misunderstood for nearly 40 years A rare solar wind event was taking place when NASA’s Voyager 2 zipped by in 1986, a study suggests, which affected what we ...