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.

The JWST has examined Chiron, a minor planet that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune, and found unexpectedly different ices ...

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

The dwarf planet Ceres became the first body of the asteroid belt to be discovered when Giuseppe Piazzi spotted it #Today (January 1st) in 1801. [...] ...

The Quadrantids might be one of the strongest showers this year, but poor weather could make them difficult to see.

The Quadrantid meteor shower is one of the strongest, and quickest, meteor showers of the year. Here’s what you need to know ...

Join us this week as Mike shares what makes Ceres an interesting point of research in our solar system. Astro Brief is a ...

A strange asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune could reveal key details about the birth of our solar ...

When the Quadrantid meteor shower peaks on Friday, it will be the year's first chance to see fireballs in the sky.

Centaurs — celestial bodies that combine asteroids’ rockiness and comets’ gaseousness — are relatively rare and short-lived components of our solar system. A team of astronomers has in one of these ...