Last weekend, Donna Talarico should have been rushing around to attend to details at the HippoCamp – a Lancaster-based conference focused on creative non-fiction writing and publishing. If you spend ...

ALIEN hunters have stumbled upon an undiscovered moon orbiting Neptune. The icy lump, named Hippocamp after a mythological sea beast, is just 18 miles wide, making it the smallest of Neptune’s moons.

Neptune has a new moon, and it’s also the gas giant’s smallest to date — only a little over 20 miles across. The brand new satellite is called Hippocamp. Astronomers led by Mark Showalter of the SETI ...

A faint and frigid little moon doesn't have to go by "Neptune XIV" anymore. Astronomers have given a name — "Hippocamp" — to the most recently discovered moon of Neptune, which also formerly went by S ...

In 2013, scientists discovered a tiny moon orbiting Neptune. They gave it the forgettable name S/2004 N 1, but it soon earned the nickname of “the moon that shouldn’t be there,” because its size and ...

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Neptune's collection of moons has officially grown to 14. Originally discovered in 2013 and designated S/2004 N 1, this tiny world is described more accurately in a new paper, which also gives it an ...

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For the first time in decades, a new tiny moon has been found in orbit around the gas giant Neptune, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. Hippocamp, now known as Neptune's ...