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 ...

A minor planet discovered in our solar system over a decade ago remains nameless, and the astronomers who made the heavenly find are now turning to the public for help. Meg Schwamb, Mike Brown and ...

Discovered on February 11th, 2014 by Mt. Lemmon Survey, Near-Earth Asteroid 2014 CU13, with an estimated diameter of an 80 story building (120-260m) and traveling at 43,173 MPH / 19.31 (km/s)… ...

Seven years after the SpaceX CEO launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit, astronomers from the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts confused it with ...

Astronomers discovered the minor planet 2007 OR10 more than a decade ago. Now they’re asking the public to vote on what to submit as its official name.

The Minor Planet Center operates under a NASA grant to gather information about near-Earth asteroids and their orbits. Creators of the Daily Minor Planet rely on the data collected by scientists ...

Pluto will henceforth be known as minor planet 134340 Pluto, according to a new designation by the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center. The decision to include Pluto among the ...

For the Daily Minor Planet, the Oracle team focused on taking the Minor Planet Center's complex data sets and creating intuitive visualization tools. "Humans are visual creatures.

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 ...

The discovery gives Jupiter 92 total moons, the most of any planet in the solar system. Counting the new moons, here's how many moons each planet has, according to NASA (which has not officially ...