A mission to Triton and Neptune could unlock their mysteries
A town in the Austrian Alps might not seem like the most conducive place to come up with daring space missions. But, for the ...
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Scientists share new Moon origin theory and claim 'collision theory' is false
It may be part of the night sky we look up at each night, but the moon's origins remain a mystery that has left scientists ...
7 stunning images of Neptune captured by NASA
NASA's Voyager 2 captured this image at a range of 4.4 million miles from the planet, 4 days and 20 hours before closest approach. In this false color image of Neptune, objects that are deep in the ...
‘Forget everything you knew’: Scientists reveal the Moon may have been ‘captured, not created’
A new study suggests Earth’s Moon may have been “captured” from a binary system, challenging the long-held impact theory and ...
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The Six Most Amazing Discoveries We’ve Made About Neptune
When it came to discovering Neptune, scientists didn’t need to see to believe. The eighth planet in our solar system was ...
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Have You Ever Seen The ‘Other’ Blue Planet? Earth And Neptune Are Closest Together This Week
How to find Neptune’s giant moon Triton, Neptune’s largest moon, is one of the promising places in the Solar System to look for signs of life. About 1,700km in diameter, it’s geologically ...
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Planet Neptune
It took this image of Neptune and its moon Triton, one of 77 composite photographs that appeared in Otherworlds: Visions of our Solar System, before speeding towards interstellar space. Despite its ...
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Neptune's Pride II: Triton
An HTML 5 sequel to the original Neptune's Pride 4x game. Advertisement An HTML 5 sequel to the original Neptune's Pride 4x game. Advertisement ...
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Ringed Neptune captured by James Webb telescope
Beyond the planet itself are seven of the giant's 14 moons, the most significant of which is Triton. It appears star-like in the Webb imagery. That's because Neptune is darkened in the telescope's ...
The Blue Marvel: NASA’s Voyager 2 captured this image of Neptune in the summer of 1989 as it became the first spacecraft to fly by the planet. Neptune's blue color comes from ...
Located around 30 times as far from the Sun as Earth, Neptune is not visible to the naked eye. The planet's blue color comes from methane in its atmosphere, which absorbs red wavelengths of light.