NASA discovers something on Neptune and Uranus: "There are more than 5000" The ice giants of the solar system have long been ...

A Puzzle of Magnetic Fields When Voyager 2 visited Uranus and Neptune in the late 1980s, it uncovered surprising magnetic anomalies. Unlike Earth's dipolar magnetic field, which is created by ...

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 ...

NASA’s Voyager mission completed humankind’s first close-up exploration of the four giant outer planets of our solar system.

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.

In 1986 and 1989, Voyager 2 made the final two stops on its grand tour of the outer solar system when it swept by Uranus and Neptune, respectively. Now, nearly 40 years later, the archive of data ...

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.

The perception of Neptune as much darker and bluer than Uranus was "cemented" when pictures were sent back by the Voyager 2 probe after it flew by the two planets in 1986 and 1989, said The Times.