Potentially deadly comets could be spotted many years in advance by following the meteoroid trails they leave near Earth, new ...

And there are still more meteor showers left between now and New Year's, with at least one fireball event happening at all ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) faces a crossroads as it works to prepare flights of the Vega-C and Ariane 6 as early as this ...

Halley’s comet is the most famous of this type ... the southern evening sky and is approaching the time when its rings will be edge-on as viewed from Earth. This happens every fourteen years or so, ...

Four meteor showers are all active or reaching their peaks during the month of November. That means Wyoming’s night skies will be “bombarded” with ...

In a NASA video, Ryan Park, a near-Earth asteroid expert, sums up the differences in ... Legend holds that Pope Callixtus III excommunicated Halley's Comet in 1456 as an "instrument of the devil," ...

EDMUND HALLEY was a very great man. He was not only the first to predict correctly the return of a comet, that which is ... the antiquity of this globe of earth; on which, by the evidence of ...

Orionids can be seen when Earth passes through space debris left behind comet 1P/Halley. Comet Halley takes about 76 years to orbit the Sun once and the last time it was seen was in 1986.

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

THE Taurid meteor shower is set to peak tonight, casting “slow and bright” shooting stars across the sky. These fireballs, ...

Meteor showers are a natural spectacle that sky watchers often mark on their calendars, along with other celestial phenomena ...