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 ...

Proposed NASA flyby mission to Neptune’s Moon of Triton could get the go-ahead by next summer. It would map what Voyager 2 wasn’t able and astronomers a fresh new look at the solar system’s ...

Voyager 2 spotted plumes of material sputtering from Neptune’s moon Triton in 1989. Now, ... Prockter’s team is proposing the mission under NASA’s Discovery program for low-cost missions.

NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past the planet Neptune in 1989 and took one of its final photos: a rearview mirror shot of Neptune and its moon Triton, seen as a tiny dot in the lower right ...

Scientists representing NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposed a spacecraft and mission on Tuesday at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas that would explore Triton, Neptune ...

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NASA's Four Possible Planetary Missions Stretch Across the Solar System These missions travel to Venus, Io, and Neptune's Triton—but only two will be selected. By Jennifer Leman Published: Feb ...

Neptune's moon Triton is seen in new detail in this still from a NASA animation showing the best map yet of the moon using data from the Voyager 2 spacecraft collected during a flyby on Aug. 25, 1989.

NASA released an image of the planet Wednesday that it said is the clearest view of Neptune’s rings in 30 years, and put the planet in a new light. NASA says powerful telescope offers clearest ...

NASA has proposed a mission to explore Neptune's mysterious and "weird" moon, Triton, the coldest known object in the Solar System.

NASA has proposed a mission to explore Neptune’s mysterious and “weird” moon Triton, the coldest known object in the solar system. In a statement posted to its website, the space agency said ...