Information about Uranus is limited. What we know is that the planet is composed mainly of water and ammonia ice, its diameter is about 51,000 kilometers, about four times that of the Earth, and its ...

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

Uranus' whopping 98-degree tilt may be due to a MOON migrating away from the planet and pulling it over on its side, astronomers claim. Uranus peculiarly has a rotational axis so skewed it may as ...

Although Uranus is visible to the naked eye, it was long mistaken as a star because of the planet's dimness and slow orbit. The planet is also notable for its dramatic tilt, which causes its axis ...

Like Venus, Uranus has what's known as a retrograde rotation, turning on its axis in the opposite direction to the rest of the planets. Also topsy turvy is Uranus' magnetosphere, the magnetic ...

Researchers armed with the Hubble Space Telescope have revealed that some of Uranus' largest moons have one side brighter than the other — but not the side they were expecting.

Uranus might be the butt of many jokes, but it’s one of the most unusual planets in the Solar System. Unlike all other planets, it rotates almost entirely on its side, with its axis tilted over ...

In these conditions, gravitational nudges from a large satellite could have resonated with the precession of Uranus’ axis of spin, causing the planet to gradually tip onto its side.

But thanks to this new research, we now know a little more about this icy giant. According to the research, which assessed Hubble images take between 2002 and 2022, the main components of Uranus ...

Sometimes, it feels like there is not enough time in the day here on Earth to get everything done. If human life existed on the planet Uranus, it’s likely the same phenomenon might happen.But ...