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 start counting all the chunks in ...

On May 21, the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of 2017 OF 201, which, because of its distance beyond Neptune, is classified as a trans-Neptunian ...

That's more than any other planet in our solar system. (NASA, ESA, A. Simon/Goddard Space Flight Center, M.H. Wong/University of California, Berkeley via AP) ...

The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling through the final frontier roughly 150,000 miles from Earth, according to… ...

Astronomers have announced the discovery of a new dwarf planet in our solar system, named 2017 OF201. Located far beyond Neptune, it orbits the sun every 25,000 years.

Sheppard recently submitted observations to the Minor Planet Center of the Jovian system taken from 2021 and 2022, and more publications on discoveries are expected.

Perhaps that's why the Minor Planet Center didn't initially consider the possibility when the organization announced the discovery on Jan. 2 of the unusual asteroid, complete with an official name ...

The Minor Planet Center (MPC) seemingly mistook billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. TSLA Roadster for a small body in space earlier this month, much to the fascination of the billionaire. What ...

Minor planet number 100,000 (also known as 1982 SH1) was chosen for this honor because space is defined to begin at an altitude of 100,000 meters (100 kilometers, or 62 miles) above the earth’s ...

The Jupiter moons were added recently to a list kept by the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, said Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution, who was part of the team ...