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

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

The comet was beautifully captured by César Briceño, director of the Southern Astrophysical Research Telescope. Briceño used a mirrorless DSLR camera with an 85mm lens at ISO 1600 to get 10 ...

Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech Way back in April of 2024, observers at a small telescope in Chile reported a very faint speck hurtling toward the Sun. It was a comet, the icy siblings of asteroids ...

Up until August 2024, the WISE spacecraft was one such observatory. The telescope was repurposed for asteroid and comet tracking after its original mission ended. In the next few years ...

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

A green comet will appear in the night sky this week, for the first time in 50,000 years. Skygazers in the Northern Hemisphere using telescopes and binoculars should look low on the northeastern ...

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This image shows comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) from the European Southern Observatory near its Very Large Telescope (which is visible on the mountaintop of Cerro Paranal at left) as seen by ESO ...