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 ...

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 ...

The faster-moving Voyager 1 is 13 billion miles (21 billion kilometers) from Earth. Getting There. By the time Voyager 2 reached Neptune, the Voyager mission team had completed five planetary ...

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 ...

A quarter-century ago, Voyager 2 beamed the first good images of Neptune back to Earthly eyes. Now, of course, Neptune isn’t anywhere near where it was then. But that didn’t stop New Horizons ...

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE >> Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday celebrated the 25th anniversary of an amazing scientific achievement — Voyager 2’s fly-by of Neptune.The ...

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.

The milestone makes the 41-year-old NASA probe just the second human-made object, after Voyager 1, to reach such distant regions. Now, Voyager 2 is over 11 billion miles from the sun — and counting.

Thirty years ago, on Aug. 25, 1989, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft made a close flyby of Neptune, giving humanity its first close-up of our solar system’s eighth planet. Marking the […] ...

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 ...