The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge ... But astronomers put the brakes on the exciting discovery 17 hours later — after learning they’d mistaken a cherry-red sports car for an asteroid.

The Carnegie Institution for Science and the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center has announced the discovery of dwarf planet 2015, the world with an extremely distant aphelion ...

Astronomers may have found a star racing through our galaxy at an incredible speed—dragging a planet along with it! If ...

This was the case with the discovery in 1995 of the first planet orbiting a star other than ... are already being studied by the new Center for Life in the Universe (CVU) at the UNIGE's Faculty ...