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 checkout ...

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 quick ...

When it came to discovering Neptune, scientists didn’t need to see to believe. The eighth planet in our solar system was ...

Triton and the other small moons return to Neptune, experiencing various adventures along the way. #solarballs #spaceballs ...

Neptune’s large moon Triton may have abandoned an earlier partner to arrive in its unusual orbit around Neptune. Triton is unique among all the large moons in the solar system because it orbits ...