NASA have given an update on the behemoth astroid called 2024 YR4 and its size, with the agency revealing that its much ...

An astronomer there verified the finding. And thus, the Minor Planet Center logged a new object, asteroid “2018 CN41.” Within 24 hours, however, the center retracted the designation.

The Minor Planet Center announced in January that an amateur astronomer discovered a new asteroid. However, the MPC deleted the object from its registry less than a day later. The reason?

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 ...

The Minor Planet Center confirmed the discoveries on March 11. The team observed Saturn repeatedly between 2019 and 2021 and combined multiple images, reducing noise and strengthening the signal ...