One of the most bizarre phenomena in our solar system is the strange way that Uranus spins on its side. That’s a puzzle because all the other planets spin upright.

The moons that orbit Uranus are already known to have unusual characteristics: some are heavily cratered, others have ...

Learn about the unexpected discovery that has shaped new perspectives on Uranus' moons and their brightness.

This material causes Titania and Oberon to have darker and redder leading hemispheres. These outer moons effectively shield ...

If you think Earth’s seasons are extreme, Uranus takes it to another level! Because it spins on its side, each pole experiences 42 years of continuous sunlight, followed by 42 years of darkness.

Uranus lies and rotates on its side, leaving its magnetic field tilted 60 degrees from its axis. As a result, the magnetic field ‘tumbles’ asymmetrically relative to the solar wind.

Easily Uranus’ strangest feature is the fact that it orbits on its side, lying at a 98-degree angle, with its North and South poles facing effectively East and West.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has aimed its celestial snapshot skills onto the lesser-known ringed planet Uranus more than 1.8 billion miles from the sun.

Thanks to its sideways turn, Uranus has some wild seasons, with the sun blazing across each pole for 21 Earth-years at a time while the opposing side lingers in the pitch blackness of space.

The size of Uranus' rings is controlled by the planet's five major moons, which are able to eject significant amounts of dust out of the Uranian system, according to new simulations designed to ...

Now we get an answer thanks to the work of Melaine Saillenfest at the Paris Observatory in France, and colleagues, who think that Uranus could have become tilted on its side in another way. They say ...