Dan Fleisch, professor emeritus of physics at Wittenberg University, has spent decades looking into the sky, but now he has something out there named after him. A minor planet, also known as an ...

In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the start of the Space Age, an asteroid has been named “Astronautica.” Minor planet number 100,000 (also known as 1982 SH1) was chosen for this honor because ...

In the far reaches of the solar system, beyond Neptune, there is a minor planet orbiting the sun in a sea of icy debris. Humans have known about the reddish, round object for more than a decade. Since ...