On May 1, 1949, Neptune's moon Nereid was discovered by the Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video ...

Thirty years ago, on Aug. 25, 1989, NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft made a close flyby of Neptune, giving humanity its first close-up of our solar system’s eighth planet. Marking the end of the Voyager ...

Thirty years ago, NASA’s Voyager 2 mission flew by Neptune, capturing the first close-up images of the blue gas giant. Before this, the eighth planet in our solar system was only known as a fuzzy dot ...

Newly released images commemorate the 20-year anniversary of the Voyager flyby of Neptune’s moon Triton on Aug. 24, 2009. Triton was the last solid object visited by NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft as it ...

The Space Age Blasted off when the Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite in 1957. Since then, humanity has explored our cosmic backyard with vigor — and yet two planets have ...

The advanced NASA James Webb Space Telescope captured another stunning image. This time, JWST took a high-definition photo of Neptune's rings. The international aerospace union confirmed this ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Lying at the very outskirts of our solar system, the ice giant Neptune ...

Space Perspective is conducting research and development in Fort Pierce for about a year before sending people to the edge of space in a capsule propelled by a hydrogen balloon, Marine Fleet Manager ...

The probe launched almost 50 years ago and is the farthest human-made object from Earth. Shutting down one of its scientific ...