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.

Neptune’s delicate rings and even fainter dust bands come into clear focus in this recent image captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Located some 30 times farther from the Sun ...

New JWST image reveals full glory of Neptune, its moons, and rings "It has been three decades since we last saw these faint, dusty rings." Eric Berger – Sep 21, 2022 9:18 am | 157 ...

Neptune, the farthest known planet, was last visited by Voyager 2 in the 1980s. Phys.org. ... The Arcanum mission is designed to orbit Neptune and land on Triton, ...

This composite image provided by NASA on Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022, shows three side-by-side images of Neptune. From left, a photo of Neptune taken by Voyager 2 in 1989, Hubble in 2021, and Webb ...

The last time we visited Neptune was with Voyager 2 back in 1989, and it was launched 12 years before that in 1977. ... Triton, Neptune's moon, is also interesting in its own right.

James Webb telescope captures new image of Neptune 00:26. The James Webb Space Telescope has turned its gaze away from the deep universe toward our home Solar System, capturing an image of a ...

The last time scientists caught such a clear glimpse of Neptune's rings was when Voyager 2 flew past the distant planet in 1989. Now the James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a crisp new image.

New images from the space-based observatory offer a novel view of the planet in infrared. By Jonathan O’Callaghan No spacecraft has visited Neptune since 1989, when the NASA probe Voyager 2 flew ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured this photo of Neptune, its rings and several of the planet's moons with its near-infrared camera. Triton, the bright spot of light in the upper left of ...

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.