On March 29, 1807, the German astronomer Heinrich Olbers discovered the asteroid Vesta. Vesta is the second-largest body in ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Today’s moons, planets, and dwarf planets formed from a proto-planetery disk surrounding our Sun 4.6 ...

Vesta is also visible in the early-morning ... even the waning crescent will throw too much light into the predawn sky to spot the dwarf planet for all but the most advanced observers, as ...

The minor planet Vesta is now visible in the evening sky. Patrick Moore talks about the swarm of dwarf worlds in the solar system which may be the remains of an old planet which met with disaster.

That changed in 2006 when the International Astronomical Union declared that the faraway orb was a dwarf planet due to its location, known as the Trans-Neptunian region, according to NASA.

This colorful image of the Helix nebula may mirror what someday could become of our sun and our home planet. Released on ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

The event will be ten times brighter than our Moon in the night sky, but never fear, it won't happen for another 23 billion ...

In May 2020, astronomers for the first time observed a planet getting swallowed by its host star. Based on the data at the ...

To do it, he developed a model that simulated an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf. He modeled the orbiting Earth-like planet as the habitable zone devolved, noting how much energy it ...