In the study, the researchers try to take a closer look at the two planets in our solar system that are the furthest away ...

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: ...

The solar system ice giants Neptune and Uranus have finally revealed their true colors — thanks to images collected by Voyager 2 three decades ago that have been polished with data from the Hubble ...

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 ...

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 dot ...

A new computational model suggests that Uranus' and Neptune's cores may be less icy than their "ice giant" nickname suggests.

New models suggest Uranus and Neptune may hold far more rock than expected, raising questions about how these distant planets formed.

In the 31 years since Voyager 2 left the Neptune system in 1989 and began its interstellar mission, more than a dozen proposals have been offered for return missions to one or both ice giants. So far, ...

Space Perspective is conducting research and development in Fort Pierce for about a year before sending people to the edge of space in a capsule propelled by a hydrogen balloon, Marine Fleet Manager ...

Bob’s Blog: "It's been a profound experience to actually feel how slow we are by watching myself grow old as we take our first baby steps among the stars" ...

Billions of miles (kilometers) from the Sun, Uranus and Neptune are the most distant planets in our Solar System. Long ...

Banner image: Artist's depiction of the Voyager spacecraft. (Credit: Caltech/NASA-JPL) For nearly 50 years, NASA’s Voyager 1 mission has competed for the title of deep space’s little engine that could ...