FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 4 - Caught on Camera

50 years ago, NASA sent a message to aliens — and sparked a Solar System mystery

A mere fifty years ago, Pioneer 10 launched and became the first unmanned mission to Jupiter. The mission revealed new details about the Solar System — and sent a message to aliens.

Inverse · Mar 2, 2022

NASA’s next big space telescope could see Jupiter-sized exoplanets

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will offer a new window on exoplanets — in visible light.

The Independent UK · Feb 26, 2022

Ruby clouds and water behaving strangely – what we found when studying an exoplanet's dark side

Since astronomers discovered the first planet orbiting a star other than the Sun, we have found many worlds that are very unlike the ones in our own Solar System. A large number of these “exoplanets” are large, gaseous planets roughly the size of Jupiter, orbiting close to their parent stars…

The Conversation · Feb 21, 2022

7 ways the Webb Telescope will unlock the Solar System's secrets

The James Webb Space Telescope will study Mars, Jupiter, Neptune, Pluto, and other far flung places that ground-based telescopes can't see as well.

Inverse · Feb 7, 2022

Asteroid sharing Earth’s orbit discovered – could it help future space missions?

Research has shown that the Earth trails an asteroid barely a kilometre across in its orbit about the Sun – only the second such body to have ever been spotted. It goes round the Sun on average two months ahead of the Earth, dancing around in front like an excited…

The Conversation · Feb 3, 2022

Confirmed! Earth has a second Trojan asteroid lurking in its orbit

An international team of astronomers confirms Earth really does have a second Trojan asteroid, which will orbit the Sun with us for at least the next 4,000 years.

ABC News · Feb 1, 2022

Is interstellar asteroid 'Oumuamua a spaceship? This probe could find out

In October 2017, the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua passed through our Solar System, leaving a lot of questions in its wake.

Inverse · Jan 31, 2022

A lunar return, a Jupiter moon, the most powerful rocket ever built and the James Webb Space Telescope – space missions to watch in the coming months

Space travel is all about momentum.

The Conversation · Jan 28, 2022

UC San Diego discovers driving force of huge cyclones on Jupiter

Shortly after entering orbit around Jupiter in 2016, the spacecraft Juno captured images of huge cyclones whirling in geometric patterns at the planet's poles, an unexpected finding that dazzled scientists.

Tribune News Service · Jan 18, 2022

The Webb Telescope is uniquely able to find potentially habitable worlds — here's why

NASA astrophysicist Knicole Colón sat down with Inverse to explain how the Webb will start its first year of science looking at 70 exoplanets and how it may discover more.

Inverse · Jan 18, 2022