The finding could be good news for an upcoming mission to the ice giant: a bigger magnetosphere would engulf two of the planet’s moons that researchers think might harbour hidden oceans.
it defined the way astronomers understand the ice giant. But the data collected by the probe also introduced new mysteries that have continued to puzzle scientists in the decades since the historic ...
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 ...
A scientist simulated the contents of the ice giant worlds, and found that a fluid layer may explain each planet’s strange magnetic field. By Jonathan O’Callaghan Jonathan O’Callaghan ...
As the largest planet in our solar system ... it suggests that there may be good reason to revisit the ice giant. The James Webb Space Telescope has already helped reveal new information about ...