Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft ever to fly by Neptune and Uranus, while Voyager 1 is now nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, making it humanity's most distant spacecraft. Once both ...

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

Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft ever to fly by Neptune and Uranus, while Voyager 1 is now nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, making it humanity's most distant spacecraft. "You might have ...

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 ...

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.

Uranus and Neptune. While Voyager 1 ended its planetary mission after Saturn, Voyager 2 completed a 12-year journey to Neptune. But they didn't stop there! Voyager 1 left the solar system and ...

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 ...

An image of Ariel, a moon of Uranus. Voyager 2. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal ... [+] Images Group via Getty Images) Not much is known about Ariel. NASA’s Voyager 2 photographed ...

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

Related: Uranus and Neptune aren't made of what we thought, new study hints Voyager 2 took this shot almost precisely 12 years after it launched on a Titan-Centaur rocket from Cape Canaveral ...

Voyager 2 launched a few weeks earlier, on August 20, 1977. The Voyager mission took advantage of a rare geometric arrangement of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in the late 1970s and the ...