In 1989, the NASA Voyager team showed false color images of Neptune so that we could see the clouds in the atmosphere. NASA did also show the unaltered images at the same time in 1989. The research ...

Think of Uranus and Neptune, the solar system’s outermost planets, and you may picture two distinct hues: pale turquoise and cobalt blue. But astronomers say that the true colors of these distant ice ...

Neptune has long been depicted as a deeper, darker blue than its fellow ice giant Uranus, but a new study shows that both are a similar shade of... Don't look so blue, Neptune: Now astronomers know ...

An image of Uranus on the left and Neptune on the right. They look almost indiscernible as they're both light blues. In the summer of 1989, from a remote expanse of our solar system where sunlight is ...

When you think of Neptune, you probably think of a rich blue planet with swirls visible within it. However, that isn't what Neptune looks like at all. In fact, the planet is more akin to the pale blue ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Images of Uranus and Neptune captured decades ago and showing the planets, respectively, as light green and bright blue orbs have since become enshrined as our collective vision of ...

Voyager 2's image of Neptune released shortly after the flyby in 1989 (left) with the newly reprocessed version in true colour (right). A new study suggests that Neptune and Uranus are a similar shade ...

Jan. 5 (UPI) --The true colors of Uranus and Neptune are different than what has been commonly portrayed, according to new research from the Royal Astronomical Society released Friday. The research ...

In 1989, Voyager 2 became the first and only spacecraft to ever fly by Neptune, and images from that mission famously show a planet that's a deep azure color. But in reality, Neptune is far more of a ...