Neptune's moon names and discovery dates . Here is a list of Neptune's 14 named moons and the dates of their discovery according to NASA. Despina: Discovered in July 1989 by the Voyager 2 science ...

The telescope delivered an image of the ice giant Neptune as well as seven of 14 of the known moons orbiting the planet, NASA said. ... One of Neptune's moons, Triton, can also be seen in the photo.

Neptune’s large and unusual moon, Triton, dominates this Webb portrait of Neptune as a very bright point of light sporting diffraction spikes. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI ...

New Neptunian moons–one bright, one faint. With this new discovery, the planet Neptune now has 16 known satellites. The brighter of Neptune’s two newly discovered moons is tentatively named S ...

The last time Neptune's rings were seen in detail was during a flyby in 1989 by NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft as it journeyed beyond the solar system and into interstellar space. That historic flyby ...

Sending a probe there will take between eight and 15 years, especially if we want it to get there during a window that makes Uranus’s moons the most visible. While NASA hasn’t formally ...

This was the second of 14 moons discovered at Neptune. It was also the last one to be discovered with certainty before NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Neptune in 1989.

NASA’s James Webb telescope is offering a new look at Neptune’s aurora, leading to a new mystery involving the eighth planet from the sun.

An image of Neptune captured by the Webb telescope's Near-Infrared Camera. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI From its perch one million miles from Earth, the James Webb Space Telescope has peered deep into ...

NASA's Apollo missions (1969-1972) brought back Moon rocks that help us learn its history. Photo Credit: NASA Some asteroids and distant icy bodies beyond Neptune have their own tiny moons.

The latest discovery put Uranus at 28 known moons and Neptune at 16. ... Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon — are known as "literary moons," according to NASA.