NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has detected a new moon, S/2025 U1, orbiting Uranus. This tiny moon, only 10 kilometers in ...

Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, is an enigmatic world that has perplexed astronomers with its extreme axial tilt of ...

Compared to the orbital plane in which the planets sit, Uranus’ axis sits at 98 degrees, meaning that during its northern summer, the sun shines directly onto its north pole and never sets.

Most planets have magnetic fields are aligned with their rotation, but Uranus has a magnetic field tilted at almost 60 degrees from its axis of rotation. Image showing aurora on Uranus.

The team of astronomers were particularly drawn to study Uranus in X-rays because the planet's alignments are quite jumbled: the planet lies on its side and the axis of its magnetic field is ...

But Uranus’ poles are tipped 98°, almost sideways. Because Uranus’ spin axis roughly aligns with the solar system’s plane, it’s like a rolling ball, with rotation axes on the sides ...

"Uranus spins on its side, with its axis pointing almost at right angles to those of all the other planets in the solar system," says lead author Jacob Kegerreis, PhD researcher in Durham ...

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 ...

Uranus axis The planet turns on its axis every 17 hours and 14 minutes. It rotates the opposite way to Earth and most other planets.

To produce the tableau we see today, the astronomers write in their report, Uranus must have captured a satellite in an off-axis, retrograde orbit. That gravitational drag upended Uranus' axis of ...

It's Not Planet 9 To produce the tableau we see today, the astronomers write in their report, Uranus must have captured a satellite in an off-axis, retrograde orbit.

Uranus' highly tilted axis makes it something of an oddball in our solar system. The accepted wisdom is that Uranus was knocked on its side by a single large impact, but new research rewrites our ...