diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bcbcd2ff6..a2cdab9e2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ CLI command and its behaviour. There are no guarantees of stability for the
 ### Added
 
 - More file types are recognised:
+  - Earthly files (`Earthfile` and `.earthlyignore`) (#1024)
   - CSON (`.cson`) (#1002)
   - Hjson (`.hjson`) (#1002)
   - JSON5 (`.json5`) (#1002)
diff --git a/src/reuse/comment.py b/src/reuse/comment.py
index 0e5514113..5c4484a31 100644
--- a/src/reuse/comment.py
+++ b/src/reuse/comment.py
@@ -847,6 +847,7 @@ class XQueryCommentStyle(CommentStyle):
     ".clang-tidy": PythonCommentStyle,
     ".coveragerc": PythonCommentStyle,
     ".dockerignore": PythonCommentStyle,
+    ".earthlyignore": PythonCommentStyle,
     ".editorconfig": PythonCommentStyle,
     ".empty": EmptyCommentStyle,
     ".eslintignore": PythonCommentStyle,
@@ -879,6 +880,7 @@ class XQueryCommentStyle(CommentStyle):
     "Containerfile": PythonCommentStyle,
     "Dockerfile": PythonCommentStyle,
     "Doxyfile": PythonCommentStyle,
+    "Earthfile": PythonCommentStyle,
     "Gemfile": PythonCommentStyle,
     "go.mod": CppCommentStyle,
     "go.sum": UncommentableCommentStyle,