Triton returns to the edge of the solar system in search of answers—where did Neptune’s moons really come from? What secrets is Neptune hiding? A cosmic story of capture, identity, and moon-sized ...

Triton, Neptune’s largest moon, is the bluish, starlike object at the upper left.Credit...NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Most prominent in the telescope’s view are Neptune’s rings, seen encircling ...

with its largest moon Triton, which orbits the planet backward, appearing with diffraction spikes, which are seen in many pictures from Webb, NASA said. The planet Neptune and seven of its 14 ...

Neptune’s gravity is slowly sapping energy from Triton, causing the moon to inch ... give rise to peculiar auroras unlike what we see on Earth. “There have been a lot of open questions about ...

One outcome of the Alpbach Summer School this year was an idea for a combined Neptune / Triton explorer mission to take advantage of existing technology developed for the JUICE missions.

Triton dominates this Webb portrait of Neptune as a very bright point of light sporting the signature diffraction spikes seen in many of Webb’s images. CREDIT: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. Astronomers ...

Uranus, at left, and Neptune, as seen by Hubble (A ... of years ago from a nearby region populated by icy objects: Triton, a planet-size world, with a smooth, icy surface. When Voyager 2 swung ...

"Its great to see how excited everyone is ... with those ring moons and Triton." Neptune is the outermost planet in our Solar System, beyond Uranus and Saturn, but inside the dwarf planet ...

This is Neptune's largest moon, Triton, which has been visited only once by NASA's Voyager 2 in 1989. But are Triton's geysers the only characteristics that make it a good target for astrobiology ...

Last week, a new James Webb Space Telescope image illuminated Neptune in a never-before-seen light. In the shot, Neptune appears as a glowing orb with its rings fully visible, and its moon Triton ...