A large asteroid is about to make its closest approach to Earth in 100 years. Over the coming days, it's so close you should be able to observe it yourself with only the aid of binoculars.

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery in the outer reaches of our solar system, uncovering a mysterious object that defies conventional classification. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, ...

Dr. Juan Luis Rizos and collaborators at the Astrophysical Institute of Andalucia in Spain used an innovative new approach to observe organic materials on Ceres. Following the Dawn spacecraft ...

Such as: On this date, Jan. 1, 1801, Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the asteroid/dwarf planet Ceres orbiting the sun in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Ceres has been ...

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

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. (NASA Image) (NASA) – The dwarf planet Ceres ...

China’s official Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) eased to 50.1 in December, compared to 50.3 in the previous reading. The reading came in below the market consensus of 50.3 in the ...

about 2.1 to 3.3 astronomical units (roughly 195 to 307 million miles) from our star. These asteroids vary widely in size, from tiny pebbles to large bodies, such as Ceres—the largest asteroid ...

Centaurs — celestial bodies that combine asteroids’ rockiness and comets’ gaseousness — are relatively rare and short-lived components of our solar system. A team of astronomers has in one of these ...