Olympus Mons, Mars' immense shield volcano, towers 21 kilometers above its surface, dwarfing Earth's Mount Everest. Covering ...

A rare comet is still glowing over Ohio. Here's how to see it before it's gone, and won't return for 80,000 years.

In 1914, English composer Gustav Holst began writing what would become The Planets, a seven-movement orchestral suite ...

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 ...

This year has seen many celestial phenomena including the total solar eclipse in April, Northern Lights in May, a ‘mini-moon’ and now the ‘comet of the century’ this October. This comet ...

This year has seen many celestial phenomena including the total solar eclipse in April, Northern Lights in May, a ‘mini-moon’ and now the ‘comet of the century’ this October. This comet will be the ...

In January 2023, astronomers at China's Purple Mountain Observatory spotted an object hurtling through space they believed was an asteroid, according to Space.com. A month later, scientists at the ...

If everything goes well, the best time to see the "comet of the century" starts Thursday, Oct. 10, according to Indiana's Holcomb Observatory and Planetarium. "At this time, Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ...

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) is rapidly approaching its closest approach to the sun, which may be the closest it comes to our planet. The comet will reach its brightest at about 36.4 ...