The Minor Planet Center has confirmed the addition of 28 newly discovered moons of Saturn. Saturn now has 117 moons and Jupiter has 95. Corey Powell notes that if we ...

This August 1989 image provided by NASA shows the planet Neptune photographed by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, processed to enhance the visibility of small features. The International Astronomical Union's ...

Jupiter is a superstar in our solar system. It’s the biggest, it’s wonderfully gassy, and it now has the most documented moons, clocking in at 92 natural satellites. Its new count became official on ...

Rad New Planet: A BYU Scientist's Astronomical Honor. Video produced by BYU Video. BYU planetary geology professor Jani Radebaugh’s contributions to planetary science have reached cosmic proportions ...

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: ...

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 ...

In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the start of the Space Age, an asteroid has been named “Astronautica.” Minor planet number 100,000 (also known as 1982 SH1) was chosen for this honor because ...