From Jupiter at its brightest to a dazzling Saturn-Moon-Neptune alignment, here’s what to watch in the night sky in January ...
Neptune’s supersonic winds and icy storms revealed a planet so extreme that it forever changed our picture of the solar ...
It’s time to add one more tiny moon to Neptune’s icy family tree. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have spied a previously undetected satellite around the solar system’s eighth planet, ...
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 ...
William Lassell, an amateur astronomer, discovered Neptune's moon Triton on October 10, 1846, using his self-constructed 20-foot reflector telescope, a mere 17 days after Neptune's initial ...
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 ...