And the outer solar system contains one striking crime scene holding a big mystery: How the environment around Neptune got a moon like Triton. Neptune has 14 known moons. With the exception of ...

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 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 ...

Looming over Neptune in a zoomed-out image is what appears to be a very bright spiky star, but is in fact Triton, Neptune's strange, huge moon haloed with Webb's famed diffraction spikes.

Whereas most planetary moons, including all the others around Neptune, orbit with their planetary host’s rotation, Triton does so in the opposite direction. That orbit suggests to researchers ...

A wider view of Neptune from the Webb telescope. Triton, Neptune’s largest moon, is the bluish, starlike object at the upper left.Credit...NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Most prominent in the telescope ...

The Arcanum mission is designed to orbit Neptune and land on Triton, giving insight into both objects of interest in the system. Neptune has some of the highest winds in the solar system and the ...

JWST saw seven of Neptune’s 14 known moons. 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.

But mining Neptune’s deep interior is impossible, because no robot can survive at the planet’s extreme pressures. The moon Triton tends to let off steam A photo montage of Neptune peeking ...

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 has one of the most intriguing moons in the solar system, which it swiped millions of years ago from a nearby region populated by icy objects: Triton, a planet-size world, with a smooth ...

Apr. 15, 2025 — A new study modeled the chemistry of TOI-270 d, an exoplanet between Earth and Neptune in size, finding evidence that it could be a giant rocky planet shrouded in a thick ...