The Tsuchinshan-ATLAS comet, also known as the A3, photographed with an iPhone from a pasture outside of Baker on Wednesday ...

Last week, the northern lights wove ribbons of green and red through the dark. This past weekend, and again Monday evening, a ...

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 will be 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 ...

However, the comet had already been independently observed in January 2023 by the Tsuchinshan Chinese Observatory (also known as the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences).

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 ...

However, the comet had already been independently observed in January 2023 by the Tsuchinshan Chinese Observatory (also known as the Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences).