On January 1, 1801, a Sicilian astronomer named Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres orbiting the sun between ...

Millions of asteroids, not a planet, exist in the asteroid belt. The asteroid belt's total mass is only a small fraction of the Moon's mass. Meteorite analysis suggests the asteroids didn't originate ...

The first full moon of 2026 is the Wolf Moon. And it’s a supermoon —the fourth in a row! As per the Farmer’s Almanac, it will ...

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) currently recognizes five dwarf planets in our solar system, though there are likely many more. The most famous of the bunch is Pluto, way out beyond the ...

Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies a ring-shaped region called the asteroid belt, home to the vast majority of our solar system’s space rocks. The asteroid belt is as old as the solar system ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid ...

The latest discoveries about Vesta challenge its traditional classification. This giant asteroid might actually be a remnant of a forming planet rather than a minor planet. Scientists long believed ...

They're calling them "planetary embryos". When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists believe that two asteroids might be ...

Karl Ludwig Harding discovered the asteroid Juno on September 1, 1804, using a 5-centimeter refracting telescope. Harding's discovery was part of a larger effort by the "Celestial Police" to locate a ...

If you were to ask a group of dedicated amateur astronomers to list their favorite telescopic targets, few if any would ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a mysterious Planet Nine. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang visited the Vera C. Rubin ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured infant planets colliding around Fomalhaut, one of the brightest stars in the night ...