NASA’s Voyager 2 became the first and still only spacecraft to fly by Uranus, offering humanity its first close-up look at this mysterious, icy giant. Orbiting over 1.8 billion miles from Earth, ...

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 ...

"Uranus is weird, so it's always been uncertain how much the magnetic field actually interacts with its satellites," Richard Cartwright, a planetary scientist at the John Hopkins University in ...

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

Along with the radio science experiments, UOP is currently slated to carry a suite of instruments designed to study Uranus' magnetic field, energetic particles, plasma and infrared spectrometry ...

Jupiter isn’t alone in this category; Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are also gas giants, though Uranus and Neptune are often ...

Angular momentum is a fundamental quantity in physics that describes the rotational motion of objects. In quantum physics, it ...

“We find that both exhibit strong linearly increasing trends, coupled with a large surge in magnitude between 330 and 220 ...

NASA scientists embarked on a mission to find signs of interaction between Uranus' magnetic region and the surfaces of its four largest moons using the Hubble Space Telescope. During the mission ...

One of those investigations involved a distinctive deep dive into studying the interior of the moon.

Scientists have long suspected the fish can travel by sensing the magnetic field, but no one knew how—until now.