"Uranus is weird, so it's always been uncertain how much the magnetic field actually interacts with its satellites." ...

The moons that orbit Uranus are already known to have unusual characteristics: some are heavily cratered, others have tectonic features or a patchwork of ridges and cliffs. Using the Hubble space ...

Hubble's latest observations show Uranus' moons behaving in ways scientists didn't expect, revealing surprising clues about the planet's magnetic field and its mysterious interactions. The post ...

Earth, Jupiter, and Saturn all have dipolar magnetic fields, meaning they have a north and south pole — the type of configuration we’re obviously used to. But Uranus and Neptune don’t.

Uranus's mysteriously asymmetrical and skewed magnetic field has long confounded astronomers—until now. When the Voyager 2 spacecraft zipped past Uranus in 1986, it noticed that the huge gas ...

Uranus may not have a weird magnetic field after all. A blast of solar radiation just before Voyager 2’s arrival in 1986 may have misled researchers for decades.

“Their magnetic fields are disordered and do not have the well-defined north and south poles that we know from Earth, Jupiter and Saturn. This has been a long-standing puzzle since the Voyager 2 ...

Uranus’s atmospheric loss is driven by its strange magnetic field, the axis of which points at an angle compared to the axis on which the planet spins.

Both of the ice giant planets, Uranus and Neptune, lacked what's known as a "dipole magnetic field." This was in stark contrast to our own rocky world, as well as the two gas giants Jupitar and ...

Uranus and Neptune are unusual planets in our solar system because their magnetic fields are misaligned with the axes in which they spin. Astronomers haven’t found an explanation for this, but ...

Though it was far from intentional, Voyager 2's flyby may have taken place at the same time that some unusual space weather was squashing the planet's magnetic field – skewing the probe's data.