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

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

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.

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 ...

Of course, Neptune's axis isn't nearly as skewed as Uranus, which is one reason that scientists have struggled to determine what caused Uranus' strange tilt.

In the 2022 view, Uranus’ rotational axis is severely off-kilter, causing the planet’s north pole to be turned toward the Sun.

Uranus is surrounded by a system of faint rings, but they are not easily spotted. Before today, only the Voyager 2 spacecraft during its flyby of the planet in 1986 and the Keck Observatory have ...

A study has finally determined where Uranus gets its heat. Researchers from the University of Houston, led by Dr. Xinyue Wang, launched a deep probe of Uranus’ data — and determined that the ...

Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Shizhao using CommonsHelper. The original uploader was Ruslik0 at English Wikipedia. Uranus marches to the beat of its own weird little drum. Although it ...

Our understanding of Uranus might have been all wrong for nearly 40 years. In January 1986, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft zoomed past Uranus as part of a grand tour of the outer solar system.

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.