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 ...

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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.

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, ...

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 ...

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" ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...