When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. What it is: One of the final photographs of Neptune taken by NASA's Voyager 2 probe Where it is: ...

Mathematicians calculated where the planet might be based on its effects on Uranus, and astronomers searched for less than an ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured a detailed image of Neptune's auroras, making it the first observatory to do so. Though Voyager 2 was the first spacecraft to fly by Neptune, detect its ...

Ed Stone, the longtime project scientist of NASA’s Voyager mission, shares some wise words, followed by a presentation by the ...

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 end of the Voyager ...

More than 30 years have passed since the Voyager 2 fly-bys of Uranus and Neptune. I discuss a range of lessons learned from Voyager, broadly grouped into process, planning, and people. In terms of ...

PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space Perspective’s Marine Spaceport Voyager arrived at Port Canaveral carrying the Spaceship Neptune fresh off the heels of a successful uncrewed flight test off the coast of ...

Why it's so special: Only one spacecraft has ever visited the eighth and most distant planet from the sun. On Aug. 25, 1989, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft took the first-ever close-up images of Neptune.