Look to the night sky on Saturday for the best chance to see a comet that won't be back for another 80,000 years, according ...

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

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

October is giving Kentuckians a chance to see possibly the brightest comet of 2024, according to NASA, before it fades away ...

If you can see [the comet] with your unaided eye, [using] the binoculars will knock your socks off." It was discovered by the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Mid-October should be our best chance to view a comet not expected back for another 80,000 years, experts say.

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

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 ...