Nereid was discovered by Dutch astronomer Gerard Kuiper, who named the moon after the sea nymphs in Greek mythology ...

For decades, scientists believed that Nereid, Neptune's third-largest moon, was not native to the planet at all.

Neptune , the farthest of the planets, acts like a shepherd for the outer solar system, gravitationally scattering distant asteroids known as Kuiper ...

Neptune’s far-flung moon Nereid may be the last of the planet’s original companions that managed to survive a cosmic crash, ...