Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

Hubble Space Telescope imagery Neptune has revealed that the planet's clouds are disappearing. Credit: NASA Goddard Space ...

NASA’s Voyager mission launched in the 1970s. Today, it’s making history as it conducts new science. But how are two ...

In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 and 2: a pair of spacecraft tasked with touring Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune by ...

Located around 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. The planet's blue color comes from methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light.

New Webb Image Captures Clearest View of Neptune's Rings in Decades Sep. 21, 2022 — NASA's James Webb Space Telescope shows off its capabilities closer to home with its first image of Neptune.

From the mysterious 'smiling face' to the grand 'Pillars of creation', check out these 7 amazing photos of our universe ...

Neptune is actually pretty similar to Uranus." JULIAN BAUM/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The earlier images were captured by Nasa's Voyager spacecraft in the 1980s Astronomers have long known that most ...

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.

On this day in 1846, Neptune is observed by the Berlin Observatory by astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle (assisted by Heinrich Louis d’Arrest), working from calculations of Urbain Le Verrier.

Voyager 1 switched to a very old backup radio transmitter, not used since 1981, restoring NASA’s contact amid communication ...

The Space Perspective “SpaceBalloon,” filled with hydrogen, will lift the capsule at 12 miles per hour. The balloon itself is ...