In 30 years, a nuclear-powered space exploration mission to Neptune and its moons may begin to reveal some of our solar system's most elusive secrets about the formation of its planets -- and recently ...

LAUREL, MD. — NASA began an early feasibility study for missions to the distant, mostly ignored ice-giants Uranus and Neptune, a senior agency official said here Aug. 24. “I’ve asked [the Jet ...

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It was just after midnight at mission control center at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Carl Sagan was exuberant. The Voyager 2 spacecraft had just completed its decade-long mission by making ...

It was 24 January 1986 when Voyager 2 flew by Uranus on its never-ending outbound journey from the solar system. Three and a half years later, on 25 August 1989, the probe flew past Neptune and became ...

It’s been 30 years since Nasa last visited Venus, with the Magellan orbiter in 1990. Now, two new missions have been selected to explore the deadly atmosphere, crushing pressures and volcanic ...

HELSINKI — A senior Chinese space scientist and delegate to the country’s national congress is proposing the prioritization of an unprecedented orbiter mission to ice giant Neptune. Chinese ...

While a pair of NASA rovers explore Mars and the Cassini-Huygens mission peers close at Saturn, two research teams are targeting a more distant planetary quarry, the ice giant Neptune. In separate ...

Uranus and Neptune have never got much attention from us – we’ve only passed each once and never hung around. But that could change. A NASA group has now outlined possible missions to make it to one ...