Kopernik Observatory Executive Director Drew Deskur discusses how to view rare comet that will be visible in the Southern ...

ATLAS, which should this weekend become a naked-eye object in the post-sunset sky from the northern hemisphere.

Your unusual chance to see a comet in the sky is here. C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was discovered by astronomers in 2023 — ...

The University of Alaska Fairbanks invites the public to view a celestial visitor that hasn’t traveled near Earth in at least ...

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 ...

A minor planet has been named after Chinese medical scientist Zhong Nanshan in recognition of his contribution to science at ...

When the Purple Mountain Observatory (Tsuchinshan) near Nanjing, China photographed a faint object in mid-January 2023, it was initially thought to be an asteroid. Six weeks later on Feb.

The comet’s name comes from the two observatories that discovered it: the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (also known as the Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory ...

Astronomers discovered it in January 2023 as an asteroidlike dot in images of the sky taken at the Purple Mountain Observatory in China. It was very faint and in subsequent weeks wasn’t seen ...

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 ...

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