Series of bumps sent Uranus into its sideways spin, new research suggests
Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 09:30
in Physics & Chemistry
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 theories of how Uranus became so tilted and also solves fresh mysteries about the position and orbits of its moons.