Uranus has 29 moons orbiting it. The first two moons Herschel spotted in 1787 were Oberon and Titania, and they are Uranus's largest moons. There is another Uranus moon that the James Webb Space ...

Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) found a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus, expanding the planet’s known satellite family to 29. The ...

For researchers at the University of Idaho, spotting a moon 6 miles wide orbiting Uranus, a staggering 1.8 billion miles from Earth, may actually be easier than finding a white cat in a snowstorm. A ...

New research on the Uranian moon Ariel suggests the icy world may be hiding a deep secret. Credit: NASA / JPL Scientists think one of Uranus' moons may once have had an ocean roughly 100 miles deep — ...

MOSCOW, Idaho — Sept. 3, 2025 — A team led by the Southwest Research Institute and including University of Idaho’s Matthew Hedman, a professor of physics, discovered a new moon orbiting Uranus. The ...

A discovery by NASA reveals that Uranus has an additional small moon that was previously hidden to scientists. Discovered by a team led by the Southwest Research Institute using NASA's James Webb ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has found a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus. NASA announced the discovery on Tuesday, adding that the moon was first spotted on Feb. 2. Scientists estimate ...

The following is a news release from the University of Idaho: MOSCOW, Idaho (KIFI) — A team led by the Southwest Research Institute and including University of Idaho’s Matthew Hedman, a professor of ...