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 ...

When meteoroids enter Earth’s atmosphere (or that of another planet, like Mars) at high speed and burn up, the fireballs or “shooting stars” are called meteors. The meteor shower dates for 2025 are ...

An example is Halley’s Comet which orbits the Sun every 76 ... 7.6 billion miles (12.2 billion kilometres). It will return in 2061 on its regular 76-year journey around the Sun.

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 ...

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 ...