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 ...

That is why you can use a compass (which is guided by the magnetic field) to find the geographic north pole. However, on Neptune, the situation is very different. Neptune’s magnetic field is ...

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.

This bizarre structure could explain why Uranus and Neptune have such unusual magnetic fields. The outermost layers of Uranus and Neptune consist mainly of clouds of hydrogen, helium and methane ...

Experts are not sure why Neptune's auroras can be seen around the ... the upper atmosphere" after getting trapped in a planet’s magnetic field, according to NASA. Never miss a story — sign ...

Most planets in the solar system have a magnetic field whose spheres of influence look like the symmetric lobes of an hourglass. But the ice giants deviate from their planetary brethren.

NASA's JWST revealed an aurora shimmering across Neptune's atmosphere, captured in infrared detail for the first time. This provides new insights into the planet's atmosphere and magnetic field.

This is because (as Voyager 2 also discovered) Neptune's magnetic field is tilted by 47 degrees off of the planet's axis of rotation—meaning that the field lines along which the solar wind is ...

But the Voyager 2 mission did discover the strange nature of Neptune's magnetic field, tilted at a steep angle. Unlike Earth’s steady magnetic field, Neptune’s shifts and twists. Because ...

The difference is owed to Neptune's magnetic field, which—as noted by Voyager 2—is tilted by 47 degrees, thus pushing the auroras away from Neptune's rotational poles. The temperature of ...

Models for the interior structures of the ice-giant planets Uranus and Neptune have two distinct, intermediate layers: an upper, water-rich convecting layer where disorganized magnetic fields are ...

But then the spacecraft flew past Neptune three years later and “its magnetic field was also significantly tilted,” Dr. Hammel said. Dr. Militzer’s proposal aims to settle this debate.