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 ...

Neptune’s Moon Triton Is Destination of Proposed NASA Mission. Scientists at a conference in Houston presented the concept for a flyby mission to study a mysterious moon that may contain an ocean.

This color photo of Neptune's largest moon Triton was obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 probe on Aug. 24, 1989, from 330,000 miles away. The resolution is about 6.2 miles, sufficient to begin to show ...

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 ...

Related: NASA Unveils Best Map Ever of Neptune's Moon Triton (Images, Video) That's where it became such an active, dramatic world, on account of its interaction with Neptune's gravity.

Like Earth’s Moon, Triton is tidally locked with Neptune as it keeps the same face toward its parent planet and leads with the same face in its orbit. The first, and so far, only spacecraft to visit ...

NASA has proposed sending a spacecraft to Neptune's moon Triton, to learn more about this body which hasn't been visited since Voyager 2 flew by 30 years ago.

A proposed "Neptune Odyssey" mission to explore the ‘other’ blue planet and its weird moon Triton is “shovel ready,” say scientists. It could be NASA’s next flagship mission.

As NASA’s New Horizons mission heads to Pluto, scientists could get an idea of what to expect by studying Triton, Neptune's strange icy moon.

NASA unveils best map ever of Neptune's moon Triton (images, video) Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, " Out There " (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate ), is ...

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

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 ...