It’s known for its bright and fast-moving shooting stars resulting from Halley’s comet, the most famous comet of all, which ...

The Lyrids are the product of a comet called C/1861 G1 (Thatcher) that has a roughly 422-year orbit around the Sun; their ...

As a comet gets closer to our star, its surface heats up, causing chunks ... of Halley's Comet." Halley's Comet—which measures around 10 miles across—last passed close to Earth and the inner ...

THE dazzling Lyrid meteor shower is set to rain over Earth this Easter, with outbursts of up to 100 shooting stars per hour.

The best time to see the Lyrids will be early next week, which coincides with the start of the Eta Aquarids meteor shower.

This shower tends to be more of a spectacle, producing up to 50 meteors per hour at its peak. It's named after Eta Aquarii, one of the stars in the constellation Aquarius. The Eta Aquarids is one of ...

Even though Halley's Comet is billions of kilometers ... orbit around the Sun. Relatively close to Pluto,” explains Bjælde. The next time it heats up significantly from the Sun and shows ...

PROF. SIMON SCHAFFER:'Halley collated tables of all the comet observations he could find, 'looking for similarities in their behaviour. 'What direction they came from. 'How close they got to the sun.