Professor Irwin said, "Although the familiar Voyager 2 images of Uranus were published in a form closer to 'true' color, those of Neptune were, in fact, stretched and enhanced, and therefore made ...

Scientists have uncovered the secret ingredient fueling supercharged storms on Uranus and Neptune: methane. Uranus and ...

Voyager 1 was responsible for one of the most iconic space photos in the history of the space program. In 1990, while still ...

This image of the planet Uranus was taken by Voyager 2 in 1986. The blue-green color results from the absorption of red light by methane gas in Uranus' deep, cold and remarkably clear atmosphere.

Like many NASA programs, Voyager has far exceeded its original ... a probe would be able to reach Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune using only gravitational assists after its initial powered ...

Launched in August and September 1977, NASA’s twin Voyager spacecraft have opened up new worlds for exploration, including Saturn (shown here), Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune. This story appears ...

Unlike the 1974 alignment of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune captured by the Voyager spacecraft, the planets visible on August 28th will be flung across the sky at varied depths, distances ...

Uranus is virtually unexplored. NASA’s Voyager 2 probe flew close to Uranus on January 24, 1986. It gave us our only close-up images of Uranus and discovered 10 new moons. Uranus has 27 moons ...

It launched second, but reached its target first. On September 5, 1977, the Voyager 1 spacecraft blasted off from Cape ...

Voyager 2 took this shot almost precisely 12 years after it launched on a Titan-Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Having visited Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981 and Uranus in 1985 ...

Voyager 1 is almost 13 billion miles away ... the two antennas to measure radio waves emitted by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, revealing details about the physics of magnetospheric plasma ...

The Voyager mission took advantage of a rare geometric arrangement of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the late 1970s and the 1980s, an alignment that only takes place about every 185 years.