Halley's comet appears in the night sky about once every 75 or 76 years, and while Edmund Halley (the comet's namesake) didn't discover it, he did predict the orbits of comets around the sun for ...

Ancient Greek texts reveal the earliest recorded sighting of the solar system’s most famous comet 2,500 years ago. Since then, Halley’s Comet has repeatedly cameoed in history, getting credit ...

The show also features a chart of the comet`s actual return in 1758-9, when it was given Halley`s name. ”Halley`s Comet in History” continues through May 5.

Science Space The history of Halley’s Comet—and the fireball show it brings us every spring The famous comet will return near Earth in 2061. Until then, we can enjoy shooting stars in its wake.

A piece of the famous Halley's comet likely slammed into Earth in A.D. 536, blasting so much dust into the atmosphere that the planet cooled considerably, a new study suggests. The ice cores ...

See photos of Halley's Comet snapped by astronomers and spacecraft in the 20th century. Halley's Comet creates two annual meteor showers.

Halley's Comet and its sister rocks have passed Earth for thousands of years, in one instance possibly altering the planet's course in history.

On May 19, 1910, Halley’s Comet brushed the Earth. Edmund Halley was an 18th Century British astronomer. After studying ancient records, he decided comets had definite orbits, like planets and ...

Halley's comet appears in the night sky about once every 75 or 76 years, and while Edmund Halley (the comet's namesake) didn't discover it, he did predict the orbits of comets around the sun for ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The ancients had ample reason to view comets as harbingers of doom, it would appear. A piece of the famous Halley's comet likely slammed into Earth in A.D. 536, blasting so much ...