An asteroid was officially named Zhongnanshan in honor of the prominent Chinese respiratory disease expert during a naming ...
Here's what Michigan sky watchers should know about catching this rare marvel as it zooms above Michigan's skies in October.
Purple Mountain Observatory’s Fall/Winter 2024 “Excavation” collection is set to release on HBX this weekend. This season, the London-based outdoors and activewear label looked to Britain ...
In the next two weeks, a recently discovered comet will almost certainly become bright enough to see without optical aid; ...
Mid-October should be our best chance to view a comet not expected back for another 80,000 years, experts say.
The comet, formally known as C/2023 A3, was first discovered in January 2023 by Purple Mountain Observatory in China’s Jiangsu Province. (The name Tsuchinshan comes from an older transliteration ...
The experiment, led by Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), was the world’s first successful application of high-sensitivity superconducting receiver technology ...
Snow King Mountain in Jackson, Wyoming, now has the nation's only ski resort with an observatory and planetarium.
Comets take the name of the discoverer, whether that be a human or an automated telescopic survey that robotically inspects the sky every night. For example, Comet Hale-Bopp is named for Alan Hale ...
The most anticipated comet of 2024, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) can be observed by the naked eye in the western sky after ...