The Voyager 2 spacecraft, hurtling through the solar system on its way to a fourth planetary encounter, responded to orders by flight engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Friday and fired its… ...

NASA's new Voyager 2 map and video of Neptune's moon Triton celebrate 25-year anniversary, ... Aug. 25 -- the same day that the Voyager 2 spacecraft visited the giant icy planet in 1989.

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft made the first-ever flyby of Neptune on Aug. 25, 1989, zipping by the "ice giant" and its frigid moon Triton in quick succession. The historic encounter gave a face to ...

On 25 August 1989, the Voyager 2 spacecraft flew within 5000 kilometres of Neptune. This was the spacecraft's final encounter with a planet on a mission that began 12 years earlier to explore our ...

Thirty years ago, NASA's Voyager 2 mission flew by Neptune, capturing the first close-up images of the blue gas giant. Before this, the eighth planet in our solar system was only known as a fuzzy ...

The revelations kept pace Thursday with an accelerating Voyager 2 as the tiny spacecraft raced over the cold, blue clouds of Neptune to cap a 12-year, 4.4 billion-mile grand tour of four planets. V… ...

Voyager 2, NASA's longest-running mission, explored Neptune during a historic encounter on Aug. 25, 1989, sending back humanity's first close-ups of the planet.

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft gave humanity its first glimpse of Neptune and its moon, Triton, in the summer of 1989. This image, taken at a range of 4.4 million miles from the planet, shows the ...

In 1781, Uranus became the first planet ever discovered using a telescope. Nearly 200 years later, Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune, in 1986 and 1989 respectively.

PASADENA, Calif. — Voyager 2 sharpened its aim on Neptune and its major moon on Monday as scientists reported a quickening tempo of discoveries. The spacecraft, which is now less than 3 milli… ...