Voyager 2, NASA's longest-running mission, explored Neptune during a historic encounter on Aug. 25, 1989, sending back humanity's first close-ups of the planet.

During Voyager 2’s Uranus encounter in 1986, the three largest DSN antennas were 64-meters (210 feet) wide. To assist with the Neptune encounter, the DSN expanded the dishes to 70 meters (230 feet).

Launched in 1977, NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, embarked on a historic journey to explore the ...

More than 30 years have passed since the Voyager 2 fly-bys of Uranus and Neptune. I discuss a range of lessons learned from Voyager, broadly grouped into process, planning, and people.

More than three decades after Voyager 2's pass, scientists have seen Neptune's auroras again with the powerful Webb telescope, producing “the first robust detection," co-author Heidi Hammel of ...

Voyager 2 was the first of the twin probes to launch, but its exit from the solar system was delayed by the "Grand Tour" that took it to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. It remains the only ...

A view of Neptune from Voyager 2, taken in 1989. Strong wind bands are seen swirling across the atmosphere. Credit: NASA "RIP Ed Stone, long-time leader of the Voyager mission.

Zooming past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, Voyager 2 beamed back a treasure trove of stunning photographs and other priceless data, providing spectacular close-up views of the solar system ...

Hints of auroras were first faintly detected in ultraviolet light during a flyby of the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989. Webb captured Neptune's shimmering lights in infrared light, providing direct ...

However, measurements of Uranus and Neptune by Voyager 2 in 1986 found that neither had a dipole field, only disorganized magnetic fields.