The aptly named Dwarf 3 will make you think again ... This isn’t a great telescope for shooting planets – even the moon and sun (solar filters are supplied) don’t exactly fill the frame.

“What’s up in the sky?” is a recurring feature and publishes on the first of every month. You can find it on WTOP’s The Space Place. Email Greg your space questions and he might answer ...

A U.S. scientist searching for a civilization across 7 Earth clones circling the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 says its own alien astronomers could also be scanning Earth.

The organic material on the dwarf planet Ceres is probably of extra-Ceresian origin: a recent study concludes that asteroids from the outer asteroid belt that crashed into the dwarf planet brought ...

the researchers looked for previously unknown deposits of organic material on dwarf planet Ceres. With its location in the middle of the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the body ...

Surface of dwarf planet Ceres. The sites of organic material are shown as or in red boxes. The vast majority of sites are found near the Ernutet crater in the northern hemisphere. Credit ...

The dwarf planet is a bizarre, cryovolcanic world. However, the organic deposits discovered on its surface so far are unlikely to originate from its interior. The organic material found in a few ...

Until that happens, the best the universe can offer is aligning planets, we’re afraid – but it’s still pretty exciting. For a few brief evenings around February 28, every planet in our solar ...

You may have heard the saying, "when the stars align," once or twice in your life, but did you know that the planets aligning is a real thing that happens? The celestial event is a notable one, mostly ...

It’s not every day you can step out your front door and see half the solar system with the naked eye. That’s the spectacle visible in Toronto and across Canada right now, as Venus, Saturn ...

An alignment of six planets will dazzle in January 2025. Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune will align in the night sky. "The whole month of January is a great time to see the ...