An enhanced view of Neptune's largest moon, Triton. Sometimes, astronomy is like a forensic investigation: We can't just rerun the past, so we have to study clues to figure out what happened. And the ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Illustration of Neptune seen from the surface of its largest ...

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Neptune’s large moon Triton may have abandoned an earlier partner to arrive in its unusual orbit around Neptune. Triton is unique among all the large moons in the solar system because ...

Triton, the largest moon of Neptune—The Cantaloupe Moon, with its literal cantaloupe-like terrain and active geysers, Triton is one of the most intriguing objects in the solar system. Aside from these ...

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 ...

Lying at the very outskirts of our solar system, the ice giant Neptune has long represented both a challenge and a mystery to astronomers and space explorers alike. The dark and cold planet, the ...

New images released Wednesday from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are revealing Neptune, and the planet's hard-to-detect rings, in a fresh light. "It has been three decades since we last saw these ...

For the first time in decades, a new tiny moon has been found in orbit around the gas giant Neptune, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Hippocamp, now known as Neptune's ...

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