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.

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 ...

1622 – The Papal Chancery adopted January 1st as the beginning of the New Year (instead of March 25th). 1772 – The first ...

When I asked readers on social media for suggestions about the coolest things they’ve seen in spaceflight during the last 25 years, I received hundreds of suggestions. To the best of my knowledge, not ...

Taurus also is the location of an important discovery made by Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi on Jan. 1 ... Ceres roughly 3° north of the 4th-magnitude star 5 Tauri. It was the first asteroid ...

In that night, nearly a hundred years after the discovery of the first asteroid (in the ... gap failed until January 1, 1801, when Piazzi discovered the small planet Ceres, the orbit of which ...