A small asteroid, called 2025 TP5, safely flew by our planet on Oct. 15 at about a quarter of the distance to the moon.

An asteroid the size of a box truck is about to make one of the closest passes of planet Earth ever recorded. The small near-Earth asteroid, called 2023 BU, will zip over the southern tip of South ...

The Minor Planet Center operates at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), which is part of the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) along with the Harvard College Observatory (HCO). - Source: ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be out of view of Earth, but orbiters on Mars were able to recently get a look at it.

An unexpected near-Earth asteroid has just skimmed past our planet. This space visitor, identified as 2025 TF, approached at a distance equivalent to that of the International Space Station. The flyby ...

In the far reaches of the solar system, beyond Neptune, there is a minor planet orbiting the sun in a sea of icy debris. J Julia Jacobs Follow Humans have known about the reddish, round object for ...

Elon Musk’s sense of humor is out of this world. Seven years after the SpaceX CEO launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit, astronomers from the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for ...

The Minor Planet Center (MPC) initially classified a near-Earth object (NEO), designated 2018 CN41, as a newly discovered asteroid based on observations from citizen scientists. This was later ...

With the discovery of several more moons around the gas giant, Jupiter has narrowly beat out Saturn as the moon king. For now, at least. reading time 2 minutes Jupiter is a superstar in our solar ...