Astronomers Discover Three New Moons Orbiting Uranus and Neptune

The discovery includes the smallest moon ever found around Uranus, highlighting advances in astronomical observation techniques.

Three new moons have been discovered orbiting Uranus and Neptune, marking the first such findings in over a decade.
The moons were identified using ground-based telescopes and required special image processing to reveal their faint presence.
One of the moons orbiting Uranus is the smallest ever discovered around the ice giant, measuring just 5 miles across.
The newly discovered moons have eccentric, distant, and inclined orbits, suggesting they were captured by the gravitational pull of Uranus and Neptune.
The discovery of these moons supports the idea that the moon systems of the giant planets are similar, despite the planets' differences.