The newly discovered space rock may be older than our entire solar system, and you may get the chance to see it ...

Scientists discover 3I/ATLAS, a possible 7-billion-year-old comet from deep space. It may rewrite what we know about the ...

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

The object seems to be travelling on a steep path - suggesting it came from the Milky Way's "thick disk", an area of ancient ...

More Halley's Comet. Getty. Did you see Halley’s comet when it was last in our inner Solar System in 1986? One of, if not the, most famous comet of all, its trip around the Sun 36 years ago left ...

Halley's Comet (a celestial body made of dust, ice, and rock that orbits the sun) is a short-period comet that is consistently visible to the naked eye from Earth, appearing every 72–80 years.

Halley’s Comet is the most famous of the short-period comets, which are comets that complete their eccentric orbits in 200 years or less. It’s the only short-period comet that’s visible to ...

So while Halley’s Comet isn't close at all to us at present—in fact, it’s outside the orbit of Neptune—it’s lurking out there in the same field of view as the radiant point of the ...

AN exhaustive discussion of the phenomena of Halley's comet and its envelopes, based on the examination of a large number of photographs taken at the Lick Observatory, at its Chile station, and at ...

IN view of the approaching return of Halley's comet, the Aquarid meteor shower of May ought to be awaited with special interest. We know comparatively little of this system, as it has been seldom ...