Saturn has decisively claimed the crown. With the discovery of 128 new moons, the ringed planet’s total count has soared to 274 — nearly twice as many as all other planets combined. Jupiter now trails ...

This is the fourth comet Gröller has discovered, but given its extraordinary distance, it was the most exciting find, he says ...

He said he isn’t worried about any asteroids now, and it would take ... it and any observations are reported to the Minor Planet Center. From here other astronomers can help track it or provide ...

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Still, many still consider Ceres to be an asteroid, arguing that asteroids and dwarf planets aren’t mutually exclusive. This includes the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center ...

Defy gravity with out-of-this-world space trivia collected from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ...

Mike Alexandersen of the Minor Planet Center, which logs planetary ... “We might want to extract resources from asteroids and moons in the solar system, so having a great understanding of ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

NASA is monitoring three aircraft-sized asteroids that will zoom past the Earth later today at around 19,000 to 22,200 miles per hour.

Astronomers have revealed new evidence that not just one, but four tiny planets are circling around Barnard's Star, the ...