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 ...
‘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 ...
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 ...
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Earth may have 'captured' the moon from space
New research explores if the moon was captured by Earth or formed by a collision. Scientists weigh theories, analyzing lunar ...
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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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Scientists Propose Radical New Theory on Moon’s Origins
Researchers at Penn State University suggest that Earth’s only satellite may have come from a “binary-exchange capture” ...
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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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Rethinking the Moon: New theory challenges collision origins
Although the Moon is the closest neighbour to our planet, scientists have still not been able to determine its origin. Since ...
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Neptune's Pride II: Triton
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Neptune News
Aug. 31, 2023 — A Neptune-sized planet denser than steel has been discovered by an international team of astronomers, who believe its composition could be the result of a giant planetary ...
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.