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

Space photo of the week: 1st-ever close-up of Neptune is Voyager 2's final portrait of a planet —SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket grounded for the 3rd time in 3 months following 'off-nominal' crash ...

Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft ever to fly by Neptune and Uranus, while Voyager 1 is now nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, making it humanity's most distant spacecraft. "You might have ...

Humanity’s first close-up images from Neptune came 34 years ago from NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft. The images shows bright cirrus clouds high in its atmosphere above most of its methane.

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 ...

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 miles ...

After leaving Earth behind, Voyager 2 embarked on what NASA termed the "Grand Tour," visiting Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and ...

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 ...

At a time when technology is updated on the fly, the reliance on decades’ old systems for space research has come as both a ...