San Antonio's Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is over the moon about its latest discovery. Leading a James Webb Space Telescope Survey, scientists from the foundation have discovered a new satellite orbiting Uranus, now the 29th known moon of the ice giant.

SwRI lead scientist Maryame El Moutamid observed the moon, by far Uranus' smallest, using images taken in February by the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope . The team estimates that the object is around six miles in diameter, well below the detection threshold for Voyager 2 's cameras.

The new moon is at the edge of Uranus' inner rings, approximately 35,000 miles from its center in the planet's equatorial plane, between the orbits of Ophelia and Bianca. Scientists generally believe that Uranus' larger moons are a mixtur

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