On January 1, 1801, a Sicilian astronomer named Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter. At the time, Ceres was considered to be a planet. But after ...
The new year brings a new feature. On this date in space exploration history will bring you daily facts about the history of ...
Among the finds is an object thought to be an asteroid from the main belt, which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
The JWST has examined Chiron, a minor planet that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune, and found unexpectedly different ices ...
The asteroid, named 2025 AB, is expected to pass us at a distance of 95,200 miles, about twice as close as the orbit of the ...
The dwarf planet Ceres became the first body of the asteroid belt to be discovered when Giuseppe Piazzi spotted it #Today (January 1st) in 1801. [...] ...
Stargazers can ring in the beginning of 2025 by witnessing the first meteor shower of the year. The Quadrantids, one of the ...
"The Quadrantid shower is one of four major meteor showers each year with a sharp peak (the other three are the Lyrids , Leonids, and Ursids )," Earthsky.org states. NASA says that the Quadrantid ...
A strange asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune could reveal key details about the birth of our solar ...
The Quadrantids might be one of the strongest showers this year, but poor weather could make them difficult to see.
Join us this week as Mike shares what makes Ceres an interesting point of research in our solar system. Astro Brief is a ...