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 ...

In August 1684 a handsome young astronomer named Edmond Halley boarded the London coach for Cambridge and sat back to ponder the events that had set him on an important mission. Earlier in the ...

Edmond Halley is famous for predicting the period of Halley's comet in the early 1700s, but comets weren't his only interest. An astronomer, mathematician, and physicist, Halley was an inventive ...

The comet is named after the English astronomer Edmond Halley. In 1705, Halley found that three bright comets reported in 1531, 1607, and 1682 all had similar orbits. He proposed that these three ...

But while astronomers have been able to predict eclipses for thousands of years, only in the 1700s was a comet's return correctly predicted, by Edmond Halley. Some comets swing around the sun ...

Are you getting ready to say goodbye to Lewisham’s popular Wetherspoons pub? The Edmund Halley pub, in Burnt Ash Road, is set to permanently close its doors on December 30. Eddie Gershon ...

The 353-unit multifamily building traded hands in July. Brookfield Properties sold a recently constructed apartment building with a ground-floor Wegmans in Reston, part of the real estate giant ...

The Edmund was the first property to deliver at Brookfield’s $1.4B Halley Rise community that is being built in phases across 36 acres. In addition to The Edmund, the Halley Rise site ...

Night - Mostly clear. Winds variable at 7 to 12 mph (11.3 to 19.3 kph). The overnight low will be 74 °F (23.3 °C). Mostly sunny with a high of 77 °F (25 °C) and a 51% chance of precipitation ...