Edmund Halley himself, the astronomer who predicted the return of the great comet of 1066, theorized that comets could have delivered enough water to create a great deluge, perhaps the one ...

Halley’s Comet has been observed for centuries, but it was Edmond Halley who, in 1705, correctly predicted its return every 76 years, based on earlier sightings.

ON January 14, 1742, died Edmond Halley, a remarkable man whose name is familiar to the public through the famous comet that is called after him. Born on October 29, 1656, in affluent ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. A suspected meteorite that struck a house in New Jersey on May 8 may ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. As there wasn’t enough excitement about comets this month, here’s a ...

The Orionid meteor shower is active between Sept. 26 to Nov. 22 and will peak on Oct. 20-21 between midnight and dawn, with clear-sky rates of about 20 meteors per hour. Viewing conditions for the ...

TIM PEAKE:Hi, I'm Tim Peake. I'm an astronaut based here at the European Space Agency, in Germany. And from December 2015 to June 2016, I spent six months orbiting Earth on the International Space ...

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