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

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 ...

Since their discovery by Voyager 2, these storms have been studied ... seems to have a complex impact on the atmospheric circulation of both planets. High-altitude clouds on Neptune cast their shadows ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

He covered 129 space shuttle missions, every interplanetary flight since Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune and scores of commercial and military launches. Based at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida ...

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 ...