Add another moon to the New Horizons photo gallery: the spacecraft’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager detected Triton, the largest of Neptune’s 13 known moons, during the annual spacecraft ...

Neptune's original family of satellites may have been destroyed when its largest moon, Triton, entered the picture.

If water is found, then NASA would mark Triton – the largest of Neptune's 13 moons – as a key target for future alien hunting missions. Trident would also give scientists a chance to visit ...

The entirety of Neptune's ring system is located well within the orbit of Triton, indicating that whatever outer system pre-existed, rings and moons both, were destroyed by the capture process of ...

Big moons of tilted ice giant hide a magnetic mystery, Hubble telescope reveals Related: James Webb Space Telescope captures stunning image of Neptune's rings and moons For one, Triton is big.

(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 ...

Triton is the largest of Neptune's moons. Discovered in 1846 by British astronomer William Lassell — just weeks after Neptune itself was found — the moon showed some strange characteristics as ...

On August 25, 1989, Voyager 2 sailed past Triton, capturing our first real look at Neptune's moon. With half the moon lost in shadow, we only got a ...

Triton was discovered in 1846 by the British astronomer William Lassell, but much about Neptune’s largest moon still remains a mystery.

Of Neptune's 13 moons, Triton is by far the largest, and, at 2700 kilometres in diameter (or three quarters the Earth's Moon), is the seventh largest moon in the whole Solar System.

Add another moon to the New Horizons photo gallery: the spacecraft’s Long Range Reconnaissance Imager detected Triton, the largest of Neptune’s 13 known moons, during the annual spacecraft ...