Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space telescopes ...

Particularly in the case of Neptune, these composites were often made too blue. Early images of Neptune from Voyager 2 were strongly contrast enhanced to better reveal the clouds, bands, and winds ...

Voyager 2/ISS images of Uranus and Neptune released shortly after the Voyager 2 flybys in 1986 and 1989, respectively, compared with a reprocessing of the individual filter images in ...

NASA’s Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it’s making history as it conducts new science. But how are two ...

Neptune is so far away from our planet that the last time we got a good look at the planet with any kind of detail was 1989, back when Voyager 2 completed its flyby. Those images were great ...

For decades, famous images from NASA's Voyager 2 mission have circulated showing Neptune in a deep azure tone. But those enhanced images have resulted in a misconception, the scientists say.

Since then, the planet has only been visited once by spacecraft when, in 1989, Voyager 2 completed its 'Grand Tour' of our solar system's outermost planets. It took this image of Neptune and its moon ...

The 47-year-old NASA Voyager 1 fell back on a radio transmitter it hadn’t used since 1981 to ping home base after a technical ...

The Voyager 2 was launched in 1977. It was the first spacecraft to fly past Uranus and Neptune, and has discovered new planetary moons among other achievements. It continues to send signals back ...

Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune. It’s currently more than 12 billion miles (19.31 billion kilometers) from Earth. Voyager 1 is over 15 billion ...