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

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

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

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

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

Sky-gazers in the Northern Hemisphere can spot comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS with their naked eyes on Saturday, ...

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

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

Photographers around the world are capturing stunning views of C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), the best comet this year.

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 ...

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 ...