NASA’s Juno spacecraft has unveiled an exciting breakthrough: the discovery of an entirely new type of plasma wave near ...

"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 ...

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 ...

New models using Voyager 2 data show that separate layers in the planets’ mantles could be creating disordered magnetic fields.

Back to Article List 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.

A new analysis of 30-year-old data has revealed that the huge magnetic bubble surrounding the planet Uranus is siphoning its atmosphere off into space.

Uranus’s aurora directly connects to the planet’s magnetic field and atmosphere, so studying it can help astronomers make predictions about the atmospheres and magnetic fields and their ...

As for the paper itself, it is “primarily about the interiors and the magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune, not about their atmospheres,” Militzer told Salon.

We may know why Uranus and Neptune lack dipole magnetic fields, at last.

Images of Uranus captured by NASA’s Voyager 2 probe in 1986. These observations may have seriously misinformed us about the planet’s magnetic field, new research claims. (Image credit: NASA/JPL) ...