A town in the Austrian Alps might not seem like the most conducive place to come up with daring space missions. But, for the ...

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space telescopes A photo of Neptune, taken by the Voyager 2 probe, with the ...

Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say overlapped with an exceptional solar event.

A unique view: These pictures of Neptune were obtained by NASA Voyager 2 on April 26,1989. The picture on the top was taken five hours after that at bottom, during which time the planet rotated ...

Voyager 2 got within 50,600 miles of Uranus during its flyby. This photograph of Neptune was taken at a range of 4.4 million miles on August 20, 1989, 4 days and 20 hours before closest approach.

Neptune is actually pretty similar to Uranus." JULIAN BAUM/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The earlier images were captured by Nasa's Voyager spacecraft in the 1980s Astronomers have long known that most ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.