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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 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.

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.