This image represents ten total hours of observation and was captured from the Dark Sky Alqueva observatory in Portugal.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit on the International Space Station sent back a wonderful image of the comet (above) as it appeared out the window of a SpaceX Dragon capsule attached to the orbiting ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) seen above ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile on Jan. 21, 2025. ESO's Very Large Telescope sits atop ...

Hot on the tail of the Quadrantids meteor shower, another spectacle in the sky is about to arrive: comet Atlas C/2024 G3, which will reach perihelion—the point of its orbit closest to the sun ...

A comet that just skirted past our sun should light up the night sky this week. The comet, Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), was only discovered in April 2024, and reached its closest point to our sun ...

Science enthusiasts are hoping to get a glimpse of a comet that’s supposed to be the brightest of 2025, but they may be out of luck depending on where they are in the world. The comet, known as ...

Keep your eye on the sky tonight. A once-in-a-lifetime comet is approaching the sun — and it will be visible for the first time in 160,000 years. Monday, Jan. 13 is when the comet will ...

Per Sky and Telescope, Northern Hemisphere skywatchers can still spot the comet extremely low in the southwestern sky until Saturday. The comet will set 35 minutes after the Sun at local sunset ...