The stunning comet C/2024 G3 lights up the sunset sky over Chile's Very Large Telescope in this spectacular photo.

It was a comet, the icy siblings of asteroids, and it was 655 million kilometers away but approaching rapidly. It took the name of the observatory that discovered it -- ATLAS. And as 2024 turned ...

The Oort Cloud comet — also known as the Tsuchinshan-ATLAS — will be lighting up the sky starting Oct. 9 Stargazers will be able to witness a "once-in-a-lifetime" comet in the night sky this ...

Why it's so special: Nicknamed the "Great Comet of 2025," Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is currently the brightest comet predicted to be visible from Earth all year. Discovered on April 5, 2024 by the ...

Not only has the ongoing planet parade been delighting stargazers, but from mid to late January, Comet G3 (ATLAS) could be seen streaking across Earth’s skies. And such was its intensity ...

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 are all visible at once in ...

ATLAS uses a set of 0.5-meter telescopes ... On the morning of the comet discovery, Flewelling was searching through the previous night’s data. “To report the comet, I noted that it had ...

Subaru Telescope’s celebration of its 25th anniversary is wrapping up in March 2025. There have been multiple projects to ...

Hong Kong residents have been captivated by the recent appearance of the comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, a celestial spectacle described as a “once-in-80,000-years” event. Residents took to social ...