On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

"There's a giant ...

As we’ve all felt to our cost, the Bank of England attempted to counter inflationary effects with a dozen or so successive interest rate hikes. Theoretically, this should have enabled insurers to ...

Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) will not outshine Venus this Halloween, after all. NASA has confirmed that the feisty comet had met its end by flying into the Sun's atmosphere, obliterating what little ...

A recently discovered comet that some stargazers had hoped to see during Halloween week has disintegrated before the day of ghosts and ghouls. NASA confirmed Tuesday its sun-observing spacecraft ...

The astrophysics field "didn't even exist" in Malaysia in the 1970s: "It was that New Zealand attitude that spurred me on." ...

A week after the northern lights were visible in the Mid-Atlantic, a rare comet made an appearance. But, if you missed it Wednesday, don’t worry; you still have a few more days to catch it.

There’s a chance a “Halloween” comet will become visible tonight, with also a possibility of seeing it during the daytime if it doesn’t break apart while approaching the sun, according to ...

That individual, Francis Williams, a polymath who was born into enslavement in Jamaica, had been proposed in 1716 as a 22-year-old at a meeting attended by Isaac Newton and Edmund Halley ...

The next time it is slated to be seen is in 2061. The comet was discovered by Edmond Halley in 1705, and he was the one who predicted the comet would return in the future. He was correct.