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 period ...

In a bizarre misinterpretation by the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union, the discovery of a new ...

"The brighter the object, usually the bigger it is," said Brian Marsden, director of the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "If it's bright ...