Space Daily August 22, 2026 • 01:00

Voyager 2 discovered ten moons when it flew past Uranus in 1986. Nearly 40 years later, James Webb found one it missed: Uranus's 29th known moon, a tiny world only about 10 kilometres wide hiding among the planet's inner moons. - Space Daily

Webb's ten long infrared exposures found S/2025 U1 between Ophelia and Bianca, extending a moon census begun by Voyager 2 while exposing how much remains unresolved around Uranus.

When Voyager 2 crossed the Uranian system on 24 January 1986, its cameras found ten moons that had never been seen before. The single encounter more than doubled the known population of small satelli… [+10219 chars]

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Voyager 2 discovered ten moons when it flew past Uranus in 1986. Nearly 40 years later, James Webb found one it missed: Uranus's 29th known moon, a tiny world only about 10 kilometres wide hiding among the planet's inner moons. - Space Daily

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