For decades, something strange has lurked inside the icy giants of our solar system. Uranus and Neptune, distant blue worlds ...

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. Instead ...

We had just one spacecraft that flew to Uranus or Neptune and measured the magnetic field. And this single measurement told us they have weird magnetic fields. So that was the starting point of the ...

2023 — Astronomers have uncovered a link between Neptune's shifting cloud abundance and the 11-year solar cycle, in which the waxing and waning of the Sun's entangled magnetic fields drives solar ...

2024 — When Voyager 2 flew by Uranus and Neptune 40 years ago, astronomers were surprised that it detected no global dipole magnetic fields, like Earth's. The explanation: the ice giants are ...

These conditions apply in the interior of the ice planets Uranus and Neptune (dark grey field ... conductive and is thus able to generate magnetic fields (red dotted area).