Researchers have shared a radical new idea for how to put a spacecraft in orbit around Neptune: Use the thin atmosphere of Triton, Neptune's largest moon, to capture it. The only spacecraft to ...

For the first time in history, we now have real, high-resolution images of Neptune that go beyond artist impressions and telescope visuals. Captured by advanced space telescopes and spacecraft, these ...

Sustaining the ocean The exact point in time when Triton was captured by Neptune and the length of time it took for the moon's orbit to become circularized are unknown. Triton’s orbit is ...

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 ...

For years, scientists have suspected that Triton wasn't part of Neptune's original collection of moons. The massive moon has a backward orbit, and makes up over 99 percent of all the mass orbiting ...

Long ago, as it sank from a higher orbit, Triton passed close to Nereid. The smaller moon, buffeted by Triton’s more powerful gravity, may have been hurled into the elliptical orbit it now follows.

For starters, Triton’s orbit is all wrong. Every other large moon that we know of — Earth’s Moon, as well as all of the major, massive moons of Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus — all orbit in ...

It may be part of the night sky we look up at each night, but the moon's origins remain a mystery that has left scientists scratching their heads for centuries. Back in the 80s, experts thought the ...

The moon, called S/2023 U1, takes 680 Earth days to complete one orbit around the planet ... which likely captured the distant Kuiper Belt object Triton — an ice rich body larger than Pluto ...

Neptune’s largest moon, Triton, and the dwarf planet Pluto may have shared a common origin before being separated in the early solar system, an analysis of their composition suggests.

The exact point in time when Triton was captured by Neptune and the length of time it took for the moon's orbit to become circularized are unknown. Triton’s orbit is currently almost exactly ...