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Uranus' new moon, S/2025 U1, was discovered in February 2025 and is approximately 6 miles in diameter, orbiting Uranus at a ...
A team of astronomers announced Tuesday that a new satellite measuring roughly 90 football fields across was discovered ...
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 ...
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Why Uranus is tilting more

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, is an enigmatic world that has perplexed astronomers with its extreme axial tilt of ...
The newfound satellite, only about six miles wide, becomes Uranus’ 29th known moon and orbits near the planet’s inner rings.
Uranus is now on the spotlight. Puns aside, the James Webb’s latest images turn a sideways, sleepy-looking world into a busy ...
Over millions of years, Uranus’s inner moons may have collided and spread out into rings. As the material in the rings ...
“No other planet has as many small inner moons as Uranus, and their complex inter-relationships with the rings hint at a ...
This week, a 5-year-old child who lived 140,000 years ago is the earliest evidence of interbreeding between Neanderthals and ...
Uranus has 28 known moons in its orbit, but thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists believe they just uncovered ...
A new study on Uranus has found it is hotter than we thought, prompting scientists to suggest we should return to the ice ...