Most planets spin like tops around the sun. But one planet in the solar system breaks all the rules. Uranus is the weirdest world in our solar system. It rolls around the sun like a giant blue barrel.

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Some of Uranus’ apparent oddities might be due to bad timing. “We just caught it at this freak moment in time,” says Jamie Jasinski, a space plasma physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...