Neptune's original family of satellites may have been destroyed when its largest moon, Triton, entered the picture. New research suggests that the massive moon may have tossed some of the original ...

Neptune's original family of satellites may have been destroyed when its largest moon, Triton, entered the picture. New research suggests that the massive moon may have tossed some of the original ...

Add another moon to the New Horizons photo gallery: the spacecraft’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager detected Triton, the largest of Neptune’s 13 known moons, during the annual spacecraft checkout ...

NASA is planning a mission to the coldest known object in our solar system in its hunt for alien life. The legendary space agency wants to send a high tech probe to Neptune's icy moon Triton, which ...

Triton was discovered in 1846 by the British astronomer William Lassell, but much about Neptune’s largest moon still remains a mystery. A flyby by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1989 offered a quick ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. This article is more than 3 years old. This global color ...

The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft helped track Neptune's largest moon, Triton, as it passed in front of a distant star, allowing astronomers to study the moon's atmosphere in greater detail.

According to the first ever infrared analysis of the atmosphere of Neptune's moon Triton, summer is in full swing in its southern hemisphere. Astronomers discovered carbon monoxide and made the first ...

Triton and the other small moons return to Neptune, experiencing various adventures along the way. #solarballs #spaceballs ...

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