The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...

2I/Borisov was discovered by Crimean amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov on Aug. 30, 2019. This solar system invader really put A117uUD's speed to shame, racing through the solar system at a hair ...

It was first spotted by the same amateur astronomer in Crimea, Gennady Borisov, who discovered an interstellar comet in 2019.

The polarization for comet 2I/Borisov was much higher than that of comets in our solar system, with the exception of comet C/1995 O1 -- otherwise known as Hale-Bopp. Comet Hale-Bopp was highly ...

The second, Comet 2I/Borisov, was spotted by amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov of Crimea on Aug. 30, 2019. It streaked through our solar system at 110,000 mph, according to NASA, and behaved more ...

Interstellar means that the object originated from outside of our solar system. On August 30, Gennady Borisov spotted a new comet while at the MARGO observatory in Crimea.

Gennady Borisov spotted the object, now named C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), “rocketing through the solar system too fast for the sun’s gravity to hang onto it,” spaceweather.com reports.

On August 30, Russian amateur astronomer Gennady Borisov captured a most unusual object in a photograph taken with his homebuilt 25.6-inch (0.65-meter) telescope. It didn't look like much — just ...

Discovered Saturday, the asteroid known as 2023 BU is believed to be between 11 feet and 28 feet across. It was first spotted by the same amateur astronomer in Crimea, Gennady Borisov, who ...