Discover interesting facts about how the moon formed, what it's made out of, and the many missions humans have launched to ...

Interest in the moon has been high – just in the past two years there have been 12 attempts to send missions to the moon, ...

The discovery brings the total number of known Uranian moons to 29. Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a newfound moon orbiting icy Uranus, the seventh planet from the ...

This week in Skywatch, I want to go back to basics when it comes to the moon. So why does the moon change shape? Why is it a crescent on one night, a half-moon another night, and a full moon on yet ...

Researchers, including Dr. Mark Showalter and Dr. Matthew Tiscareno of the SETI Institute, along with colleagues at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), discovered a previously unknown moon ...

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A new Uranian moon, provisionally designated S/2025 U1, has been discovered using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). S/2025 U1 is estimated to be 10 kilometers in diameter and orbits Uranus ...

No joke: Science has found a new teeny, tiny moon orbiting Uranus. NASA announced on Tuesday that the James Webb Space Telescope found yet another moon floating around Uranus, an ice giant that ...

The Harvest supermoon shined bright Tuesday night, with stargazers getting a spectacular view of the celestial event on Sept. 17, which included a partial lunar eclipse. Photos captured the glowing ...