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

Much of the understanding of the seventh planet comes from a brief flyby nearly 40 years ago, which researchers now say overlapped with an exceptional solar event.

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.

For decades, famous images from NASA's Voyager 2 mission have circulated showing ... features like the planet's bands and clouds. This meant that Neptune has long appeared "artificially too ...

Voyager 2/ISS images of Uranus and Neptune released shortly after the Voyager 2 flybys in 1986 and 1989, respectively, compared with a reprocessing of the individual filter images in ...

A unique view: These pictures of Neptune were obtained by NASA Voyager 2 on April 26,1989. The picture on the top was taken five hours after that at bottom, during which time the planet rotated ...

A spatial enigma hides in the depths of Uranus and Neptune. Titanic storms sporadically appear ... Since their discovery by Voyager 2, these storms have been studied. Their rare but impressive ...

The recently launched super space telescope James Webb has returned spectacular new imagery of Neptune ... not seen in such detail since the Voyager 2 probe flew past the planet in 1989.

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 ...