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

HOWETT: Triton's located one billion miles from Pluto. So how did that happen? NARRATOR: Neptune might be the farthest planet from the sun, but it's not the edge of our solar system. Not even close.

Despite the lack of a dedicated mission to the planet, scientists have learned plenty through ground observations and space ...

Current theories suggest that Triton was pulled into Neptune from the Kuiper Belt ... While that might seem incredibly fast, ...

Despite being our closest celestial neighbor, the Moon's origin has remained a mystery to scientists. Since the 1980s, the ...

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

(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 ...

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

After that, the south pole of Triton would be shrouded in darkness ... leave enough years to make anything else for the outer solar system. She only had time to make things on Earth.