A brilliant comet waved its tail above the site of the world's largest telescope as it lit up the night sky last month.

The winning photo of the Radford Photo Club’s Festivities challenge was taken at the Radford street festival by Charles Lynch of Christiansburg.

G3 (ATLAS) blazed past the Sun, captured in stunning detail by the SOHO spacecraft. Scientists used its passage to study how ...

With the new year underway, it’s time to celebrate a remarkable 2024 full of citizen science with the Unistellar Network! Thousands of professional and amateur astronomers came together once again to ...

One Texas lawmaker filed bills to prevent Marvin Nichols Reservoir from moving forward and another hinted that an alternative ...

Astrophotographer Miguel Claro captured Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) from the Dark Sky Alqueva reserve in Portugal on Oct. 13, 2024 as the comet was displaying an 'anti-tail ...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) did it! It survived its perilous perihelion, getting ten times closer to the Sun than Earth does. This comet is a sungrazer comet, and the encounter made it bright – so ...

The comet, named Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3), skirted three times closer to the sun than Mercury on January 13, and has been shining bright enough to be visible to the naked eye in the days since.

From my own experience with comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) last year, seeing a comet low in the twilight sky can be challenging. I found it was easy to spot the comet through my camera.

"Atlas C2024-G3 is paying us a visit." The ISS photo, which was shared on Jan. 11, captures the comet as it blazes through space. It exhibits a long visible tail that is made of gas and dust ...