A town in the Austrian Alps might not seem like the most conducive place to come up with daring space missions. But, for the ...

New research explores if the moon was captured by Earth or formed by a collision. Scientists weigh theories, analyzing lunar ...

A new study suggests Earth’s Moon may have been “captured” from a binary system, challenging the long-held impact theory and ...

Although the Moon is the closest neighbour to our planet, scientists have still not been able to determine its origin. Since ...

Researchers at Penn State University suggest that Earth’s only satellite may have come from a “binary-exchange capture” ...

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 ...

Neptune’s moon Triton, which orbits in the opposite direction from other moons, is thought to have been captured from the Kuiper Belt. This lends credence to the idea that Earth could have captured ...

(Pic courtesy: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) Neptune has 16 known moons, of which Triton is the largest. Interestingly it is the only large moon in our solar system with a retrograde orbit ...

The moon Triton tends to let off steam A photo montage of Neptune peeking behind its largest moon, Triton NASA / JPL Among Neptune’s 16 known moons, the largest, Triton, is an oddball.

Even when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, he didn’t actually touch it ... proposal by 2022 in order for the spacecraft to reach Triton by 2038. After that, the south pole of Triton would ...

Understanding this frozen moon will provide insight others like it such as Enceladus and Triton and, most likely, icy ocean worlds in distant star systems. Niebur points out that there is only one ...

NARRATOR: During all the commotion, Triton became trapped by Neptune's gravity, slipping into its backward orbit. And being this close to a giant has consequences. Just as our moon raises tides on ...