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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 ...

Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to have visited both Uranus and Neptune, providing humanity with unprecedented images and data on these distant ice giants. Its journey through interstellar space ...

After leaving Earth behind, Voyager 2 embarked on what NASA termed the "Grand Tour," visiting Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. It continued outward, becoming the second mission to leave the ...

Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft ever to fly by Neptune and Uranus, while Voyager 1 is now nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, making it humanity's most distant spacecraft. Once both ...

The twin probes then continued their journey to explore Uranus and Neptune. While Voyager 1 became inoperative several years ago, the Voyager 2 probe is still serving data to NASA nearly 42 years ...