Explore all 16 of Neptune's moons along with their names and dates of discovery. The Neptunian system hosts some very strange and elusive moons. ... Triton is Neptune's largest moon.

New Horizons flew past Neptune and its moon Triton in 2014 from a distance of about 2.45 billion miles (3.96 billion kilometers), but also just zoomed past the planet.

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, from its backward ...

Triton is Neptune’s biggest moon, discovered in 1846 by William Lassell. What makes it fascinating is that it orbits backward (called a retrograde orbit), opposite to Neptune’s rotation.

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.

Neptune is named after the Roman god of the sea. Its largest moon, Triton, was discovered in 1846 by English astronomer William Lassell, 17 days after German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle ...

The outer solar system contains a striking crime scene with a big mystery: How did Neptune get a moon like Triton?

Neptune and its largest moons, appear in an image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. However, its newest additions are too small to be spotted. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI ...