Neptune's moon, Triton, is a homewrecker By Nola Taylor Redd Space.com Contributor Space.com Published December 5, 2017 7:45am EST | Updated December 5, 2017 10:28am EST ...

For one, Triton is big. It's the seventh-largest moon in the solar system, and it's over 200 times bigger than all of the other moons of Neptune combined, which makes it really stick out.. Second ...

Triton was discovered in 1846 by the British astronomer William Lassell, but much about Neptune’s largest moon still remains a mystery.

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 ...

This color photo of Neptune's largest moon Triton was obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 probe on Aug. 24, 1989, from 330,000 miles away. The resolution is about 6.2 miles, ...

(SPACE.com) 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 ...

On August 25, 1989, Voyager 2 sailed past Triton, capturing our first real look at Neptune’s moon. With half the moon lost in shadow, we only got a glimpse of the icy moon.

Triton’s orbit is highly inclined with respect to Neptune, and it rotates backwards. Home-made moons don’t do that. Saturn’s moon Phoebe is also suspected of being originally from the Kuiper ...

Neptune’s satellites are dominated by one massive moon: Triton, which currently ranks as the seventh largest moon in the Solar System (behind the four Galilean moons of Jupiter, Saturn’s Titan ...

Triton isn’t just any moon – it’s one of the most mysterious objects in the entire solar system. In this video, we explore what makes Neptune’s largest moon so strange, ...

Of Neptune's 13 moons, Triton is by far the largest, and, at 2700 kilometres in diameter (or three quarters the Earth's Moon), is the seventh largest moon in the whole Solar System.

NASA has proposed sending a spacecraft to Neptune's moon Triton, to learn more about this body which hasn't been visited since Voyager 2 flew by 30 years ago.