Early images of Neptune from Voyager 2 were strongly contrast-enhanced to better reveal the clouds, bands, and winds that shape what we have come to think the planet looks like, scientists say.

Voyager 2/ISS images of Uranus and Neptune released shortly after the Voyager 2 flybys in 1986 and 1989, ... It gave us the first detailed images of these far-flung planets.

Astronomers used the data to re-balance the composite color images recorded by Voyager 2 and the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 to reveal the "true color" of Neptune and Uranus.

Scientists recently noticed three new moons lingering around Uranus and Neptune, which are the most distant planets in our solar system.Precisely, there is one orbiting Uranus, and two are ...

Considering that astronomers spotted many of the moons around Uranus and Neptune for the first time in 1989 when Voyager 2 flew by, it’s possible that there’s still more to learn about both ...

These are just two proposals that planetary scientists have come up with for what lies beneath the thick, bluish, hydrogen-and-helium atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune, our solar system's unique ...

Uranus and Neptune haven’t had a spacecraft visitor since NASA’s Voyager 2 mission more than 30 years ago. The study authors said that if a dedicated spacecraft were to orbit Uranus, it would ...

Modelling the seasonal cycle of Uranus’s colour and magnitude, and comparison with Neptune. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 2024; 527 (4): 11521 DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad3761 ...