A comet called ATLAS dazzled the southern skies for the last few weeks. Now it's heading out of view for half a million years ...

Perhaps many of us are old enough to remember the arrival of Halley’s Comet in 1986. This famous comet makes its way to earth ...

comparable to Halley’s Comet. The return of the “Devil Comet” is especially thrilling for many skywatchers, as experts project that it will be visible during the Great American Eclipse ...

He predicted that the comet would return in 1758, and indeed, although Halley was no longer around to see it, it did. The comet is now known as Halley’s Comet and shows up about every 76 years ...

Halley found the similarities in the orbits of bright comets reported in 1531, 1607, and 1682 and he suggested that the trio was actually a single comet making return trips. Article continues ...

EDMUND HALLEY was a very great man. He was not only the first to predict correctly the return of a comet, that which is now known by his name, but also—before Newton had announced his results to ...

And that is exactly what he and his friend Edmund Halley set out to do. PROF. SIMON SCHAFFER:'If they could use the theory of gravitation 'to predict the return of a comet, 'they would not only ...