News

Asteroid 2025 HY2, an Apollo-class asteroid, will pass Earth on May 7, 2025, at a speed of 48,904 km/h. Though passing at a ...
Amateur astronomer Michael Mattiazzo discovered the latest comet to grace our sky. But he fears his tenth comet could be his last as a new state-of-the-art telescope is set to replace comet hunters ...
The comet is currently visible in the northern hemisphere, and UK skywatchers have already begun to spot it. The comet is particularly visible during the early morning hours before dawn, when the sky ...
These survey telescopes then send their measurements to the Minor Planet Center at Harvard, which consolidates data from global observatories into a public catalog. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...
One interesting thing to note is that if it has been officially confirmed by the Minor Planet Center that C/2025 F2 (SWAN) has disintegrated its name will change to D/2025 F2 (SWAN). D/ standing ...
The comet was dubbed SWAN25F before it was officially designated as C/2025 F2 (SWAN) by the Minor Planet Center. Astronomers were surprised to discover that the comet was already quite bright ...
The Minor Planet Center’s code for the observatory is Nanking — the historic transliteration of Nanjing. But the bulk of PMO’s research is now conducted at several satellite observatories at ...
The comet was dubbed SWAN25F before it was officially designated as C/2025 F2 (SWAN) by the Minor Planet Center. Astronomers were surprised to discover that the comet was already quite bright ...
The Minor Planet Center officially designated it as C/2025 F2 (SWAN) on April 8. The three astronomers “noticed a faint smudge, indicative of a comet, that seemed to move across the sky over a ...
NASA warns of asteroid 2025 HY2, the size of a Boeing, approaching Earth on May 7 at 48,900 kilometres per hour.