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.

Astronomers are living in a golden age of bigger and better telescopes. But even our most advanced technology pales in comparison to the power of nature's own "cosmic magnifying glasses"—strong ...

Pictures are the key to new insights in the field of astrophysics. Such images include simulations of cosmic events, which ...

New JWST observations of the Phoenix Cluster of galaxies support a theory about star formation that other clusters challenge.

Astronomers have detected a previously unknown moon circling Uranus, marking a notable addition to our understanding of the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has just made a remarkable discovery: a brand-new moon orbiting Uranus. This tiny object, only ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a tiny moon orbiting Uranus, expanding the number of the planet's known ...

Over millions of years, Uranus’s inner moons may have collided and spread out into rings. As the material in the rings diffused, they moved farther away from the planet. Eventually, that material can ...

The recent discoveries made by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have brought forward an entirely new class of galaxies ...

James Murphy, AI engineering lead at Irish space technology company Réaltra Space Systems, is addressing this by teaching ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, the solar system's tilted seventh planet. This new space discovery brings the ice giant world's bevy of moons up ...

The observation is based on data from NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which made a historic low orbit flight over Jupiter’s north ...