The illuminated crescents of Neptune (foreground) and its largest moon Triton (background) showcase ... More how impressively large Triton, the 7th largest moon in all of the Solar System, is in ...

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

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 ...

For one, Triton is big. It's the seventh-largest moon in the solar system, and it's over 200 times bigger than all of the other moons of Neptune combined, which makes it really stick out.

Triton, the largest moon of Neptune—The Cantaloupe Moon, with its literal cantaloupe-like terrain and active geysers, Triton is one of the most intriguing objects in the solar system. Aside from these ...

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

NASA is mulling over an intrepid journey to Neptune and its mighty moon Triton, possibly the most distant ocean world of all.

Triton orbits Neptune in the opposite direction from the rest of Neptune's moons, and at a different angle, suggesting it was yoinked out of the Kuiper Belt and into a wonky Neptune orbit.

According to the first ever infrared analysis of the atmosphere of Neptune's moon Triton, summer is in full swing in its southern hemisphere. Astronomers discovered carbon monoxide and made the ...

Triton is a world of extremes. It’s by far the largest moon of Neptune, with a radius of 1,350 kilometers, or just 22% smaller than Earth’s moon.

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 ...

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