Triton orbits in what we call the retrograde direction: it orbits clockwise around Neptune, even as Neptune and all the other planets (as well as all of the moons interior to Triton) revolve in ...

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 ...

Neptune, like the other gas giants in our solar system, doesn't have much of a solid surface to live on. But the planet's largest moon, Triton, could make an interesting place to set up a space ...

NASA is mulling over an intrepid journey to Neptune and its mighty moon Triton, possibly the most distant ocean world of all.

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 ...

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

Neptune is called an “ice giant” because it’s mostly made of a thick, slushy mix of water, methane, and ammonia, which ...

These instruments would help it complete its nine science objectives, which range from measuring temperature and pressure differences in Neptune's atmosphere to determining Triton's surface ...

(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 ...

In infrared images, Triton’s frozen nitrogen surface makes it shine like a star, brighter than Neptune itself, because methane dims the planet in infrared light.

Neptune has 14 known moons. With the exception of Triton, all of Neptune's moons are very small, and they come in two general flavors: regular and irregular. The regular ones orbit close to the ...