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 ...

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

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 ...

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

For the best experience, you'll want to get away from bright city lights — the darker the skies, the better the view. Bring ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. 23 ...

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

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 ...