Uranus spins in the opposite direction to Earth and most other planets; the spin is called retrograde rotation. Its magnetosphere is tipped almost 60 degrees from its axis of rotation. Uranus's ...

Uranus, along with Neptune ... However, even the largest oceans will generate only a slight wobble: A moon's rotation might deviate only a few hundred feet as it travels through its orbit.

The study investigated whether subsurface oceans exist in the icy moons of Uranus by examining the relationship between libration amplitudes (wobbling during rotation) and internal structures.

On Jan. 13, 1986, astronomer Stephen Synnott, using data collected by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe, discovered three additional moons in orbit around Uranus. Those moons are Desdemona, Rosalind and ...