On Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft took the first-ever close-up images of Neptune. This one — among the last full-disk photos taken before the probe ended its "Grand Tour" of the ...

In 2023, Voyager 1 started sending gibberish from deep space, but that issue was resolved last year. Also in 2023, a glitch in Voyager 2 caused it to briefly turn its antenna away from Earth .

However, at Neptune’s surface, the gravity is only about 1.1 times the gravity we experience on Earth. In other words, if ...

Though Voyager 2 was the first spacecraft to fly by Neptune, detect its auroras in infrared, and snap a picture of the majestic ice giant, Webb's image offers direct, visible evidence of Neptune's ...

Voyager 1 is over 15 billion miles (25 billion km) from Earth and Voyager 2 is 13 billion miles (21 billion km) away. That's so far that it can take almost two days for a radio signal to make the ...

In a study published in early 2024, scientists reprocessed the images of Neptune from the Voyager 2 mission to reveal the planet’s true colors. Patrick Irwin.

NASA and Voyager 1 resumed communications and operations after a fault protection system switched the interstellar spacecraft's mode of communication ... Voyager 2 hopscotched to Uranus and Neptune.

NASA artist's concept of a Voyager spacecraft in deep space (main) and stock image of the solar system (inset). Voyager 1 briefly lost contact with NASA due to a radio issue.

The distant planet Neptune stands still against the background stars of Pisces in the early-morning sky, still visible close ...

In a study published in early 2024, scientists reprocessed the images of Neptune from the Voyager 2 mission to reveal the planet’s true colors. Patrick Irwin. Neptune is ...