Comets that are visible to the naked eye are not common,” said Tim Brothers, the manager for the MIT Wallace Astrophysical ...

Following an exciting event with music and stargazing during Astronomy Day on Oct. 12, Jewett Observatory will close its ...

Snow King Observatory & Planetarium opened on the top of Snow King Mountain, a ski resort just blocks from Town Square. Sitting at an elevation of 8,000 feet, the educational facility is billed as ...

In January 2023, writes Space.com, astronomers at China's Purple Mountain Observatory spotted an object ... Tsuchinshan-ATLAS should be visible in the West just after sunset, and will get higher ...

This weekend, a rare celestial event will take place as Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas makes its closest approach to Earth ...

(Comets discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory are given the traditional ... be visible to the unaided eye for many days in the west after sunset. It may even become the most visually ...

These next two weeks, we are likely to see the best overall comet properly visible from the U.S. since 1997 — and possibly ...

In January 2023, writes Space.com, astronomers at China's Purple Mountain Observatory spotted an object ... Tsuchinshan-ATLAS should be visible in the West just after sunset, and will get higher ...

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

Be prepared for the most spectacular cometary visitor for northern climes since Comet Hale-Bopp in 1997, Nigel Henbest writes ...

A spike in earthquakes at Mount Adams, a volcano in Washington state, prompted scientists to install additional monitoring ...

The comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), with a yellow tail, is firstly discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory ... the comet will appear low in the west shortly after sunset and will ...