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

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

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

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

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was last seen 80000 years ago will be closest to Earth on October 12.

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 ...

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

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 ...