Uranus is unique among all the planets of the solar system because it essentially orbits on its side, with its axis tilted nearly perpendicular to the Sun. Now astronomers have finally solved the ...

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

Uranus likely got whacked by a body one to three times as massive as the modern Earth. The impactor that knocked Uranus on its side long ago isn't quite so mysterious anymore. Uranus is tipped ...

Uranus is arguably the most mysterious planet in the solar system – we know very little about it. So far, we have only visited the planet once, with the Voyager 2 spacecraft back in 1986.

Uranus is a very weird planet, and it turns out that there is a newly discovered oddity to add to its already extensive list. Astronomers used Hubble to study the interactions between the planet's ...

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.

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.

What methods can be used to identify subsurface oceans on the five largest moons of Uranus: Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and ...

Uranus will enter retrograde on Wednesday (Aug. 24) and appear to reverse its eastward movement across the night sky until January 22. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

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.

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 ...