Like other giant planets, Juno has a ring system. However, in terms of its colorfulness and complexity of structure, it is seriously inferior to both Saturn and Uranus rings. Jupiter’s rings are mainly composed of dust, knocked out from the…
RST Telescope is a wide-band infrared observatory, NASA’s sixth “great” observatory, which was recommended in 2010 by the US National Research Council’s Decadal Survey Committee as the top priority for the next decade in astronomy. On February 17, 2016, WFIRST…
An international team of astrophysicists has announced the discovery of a previously unknown diffuse star cluster in the Milky Way. It was discovered during the analysis of data from the catalog observatory Gaia, as well as the results of ground-based…
On June 12, Blue Origin held an online auction to sell a seat on the first manned flight of the New Shepard suborbital system. The bidding ended up at the $28 million mark. The winner, whose name is not yet…
Northrop Grumman has carried out a successful mission using a Pegasus XL airborne rocket. It was launched from an L-1011 launch vehicle over the Pacific Ocean, and then placed the Odyssey satellite, designed to detect artificial objects in near-Earth space,…
The European Space Agency (ESA) has named the winner of the fifth selection of the Cosmic Vision program in the category of M-class missions. These include spacecraft costing about 500 million euros. Two projects took part in the final selection:…