Sometimes hydrogen without its electron – also known as a plain old proton – will attach to one of the electron pairs to form a molecule called a hydronium ion.

The JWST has revealed Uranus as never before, but only 40-year-old data from Uranus can explain the oddly weak radiation belt the spacecraft found.

NASA’s Voyager 2 flyby in 1986 provided the only close-up look at Uranus. Nearly 40 years later, scientists are looking back at this data and finding out the visit happened during a strange ...

Back to Article List Uranus may not have a weird magnetic field after all A blast of solar radiation just before Voyager 2’s arrival in 1986 may have misled researchers for decades.