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 ...

This bizarre structure could explain why Uranus and Neptune have such unusual magnetic fields. The outermost layers of Uranus and Neptune consist mainly of clouds of hydrogen, helium and methane ...

A Puzzle of Magnetic Fields When Voyager 2 visited Uranus and Neptune in the late 1980s, it uncovered surprising magnetic anomalies. Unlike Earth's dipolar magnetic field, which is created by ...

Uranus’s strange magnetic field may be much less weird than astronomers first thought, which means its largest moons could be much more active, and even perhaps have global oceans. Our only ...

When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Uranus in 1986, however, it discovered something unusual. “The magnetic field was hugely tilted and offset from the center of the planet,” Dr ...