An asteroid was officially named Zhongnanshan in honor of the prominent Chinese respiratory disease expert during a naming ...

The most anticipated comet of 2024, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) can be observed by the naked eye in the western sky after ...

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.

In January 2023, writes Space.com, astronomers at China's Purple Mountain Observatory spotted an object hurtling through space they believed was an asteroid. Scientists a month later at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Venus still hovers low in the southwestern sky at dusk a half-hour to 45 minutes after sunset. Saturn is comfortably high up ...