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

It’ll be visible at around 7pm and the advice is to ‘watch the western horizon soon after sunset, as the twilight is fading’.

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

Some of the best things in life are wonderful surprises. We first learned about this comet in early 2023, thanks to ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...