Voyager 2’s flyby of the sideways-rotating Uranus revealed previously unknown rings and moons around the ... “The magnetosphere Voyager 2 measured was only a snapshot in time,” Spilker said ...

Voyager 2's data on the magnetosphere surrounding Uranus has for decades left scientists perplexed. As a result, Uranus earned a decades-long reputation as an outlier in our solar system.

But the spacecraft’s observations of Uranus’ magnetosphere were wildly different from astronomers’ expectations, and scientists deemed the planet an outlier among the other large planets in ...

Researchers were eager to study Uranus’ magnetosphere, and what they saw in the Voyager 2 data in 1986 flummoxed them. Inside the planet’s magnetosphere were electron radiation belts with an ...

The white rings denote equatorial distance of 4 and 6 Earth radii. High-resolution image of the million-degree hot plasma halo encircling Earth captured by NASA’s JENI instrument.

The complicated magnetic environment of 'weird' Uranus. The four moons in this study—Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon—are tidally locked to Uranus, so that they always show the same side to ...

An international team of scientists has proved that Mercury, our solar system's smallest planet, has geomagnetic storms similar to those on Earth. Their finding, a first, answers the question of ...

Past research into fossilized tree rings also revealed that the magnetosphere was reduced to around 5% of its current strength, enabling solar radiation to paint auroras across the equator.

Voyager 2’s flyby of the sideways-rotating Uranus revealed previously unknown rings and moons around the ... “The magnetosphere Voyager 2 measured was only a snapshot in time,” Spilker said ...