Born in 1746 in Ponte, Italy, Giuseppe Piazzi was ordained as a priest in 1769. He taught theology, philosophy, and mathematics at various points in his career, but in 1787 became a professor of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On January 1, 1801, a Sicilian astronomer named Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres orbiting the sun between Mars ...

New Year's Day, 1801, the dawn of the 19th century, was a historic moment for astronomy, and for a space mission called Dawn more than 200 years later. That night, Giuseppe Piazzi pointed his ...

Yesterday's fascinating column in the Wall Street Journal accentuates a long-standing problem in the history of science and religion. Physicists Stephen Barr and Dermott Mullan recount the life and ...

The large asteroid or dwarf planet, Ceres, is illustrated here in this artist's conception from Jan. 21, 2014. Ceres is located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and it was the first asteroid ...

The dwarf planet Ceres was first discovered 215 years ago and over the generations our knowledge of the diminutive planet has has grown exponentially. Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi first viewed ...

Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, located between Mars and Jupiter, with a diameter of 587 miles. The space rock is the only dwarf planet inside Neptune’s orbit and was first ...

In January of 1801, astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi made a startling discovery. While charting the positions of the stars across several days, he noticed one of them appeared to move relative to the others ...

When Sicilian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi spotted Ceres in 1801, he thought it was a planet. Astronomers didn't know about asteroids at that time. Now we know there's an enormous quantity of them, ...