If your astronomy knowledge has gotten rusty, the “real” Edmond Halley calculated the distance from the Earth to the sun. He predicted the return of one comet, later known as Halley’s Comet, and that ...

Halley stated that this comet, now officially designated 1P/Halley, would next be in the Earth’s vicinity in 1758. And even though he wasn’t around as he died in 1742, Halley’s Comet made ...

First seen in 1705 by astronomer Edmund Halley, its fame stems from being the first comet understood to be a repeat visitor as it makes cyclical approaches toward the sun. Halley’s Comet travels ...

Back in the 1700s, an astronomer by the name of Edmond Halley predicted that three bright comets that were seen from Earth in the past, about 76 years apart, were actually the same comet, orbiting ...

Until the time of English astronomer Edmond Halley (1656-1742), ... Since then, Halley's Comet has been linked to ancient observations dating back more than 2,000 years.

Halley's Comet is still leaving its mark on our solar system as one of the most well-known celestial bodies or space rocks. September 26 marked the start of the annual Orionids meteor shower-an ...

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 ...

These tails form when solar radiation vaporizes the ice in the comet's body, leading to a trail of gas and dust. Edmond Halley, the astronomer who named the comet, was the first to predict its return ...

In 1680, the 24-year-old Edmond Halley (1656 to 1742) observed a large comet. The friend of Isaac Newton who later became Astronomer Royal tried desperately to have the comet run on a straight ...

The comet became so well known that it can sometimes overshadow Edmond Halley’s other work — of which there was a great deal. In his early adulthood, Halley sailed the Atlantic to chart the ...