halley's comet

Halley’s Comet pays us a visit every 76 years or so, but its exact arrival date cannot be predicted. A team of…

Starting late Tuesday night and continuing on through early morning Wednesday, debris from Halley’s Comet will light…

Rosetta's lander Philae is warming up to land on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in just a few hours. It will be our…

In the early morning hours of Tuesday, May 6, debris from Halley's Comet will light up the sky in this year's Eta…

A winter that lasts years isn't just a problem in Game of Thrones. Roughly 1500 years ago, our world was turned…

Science fiction is filled with tales that pit humanity against the natural world: earthquakes, meteor strikes,…

In the early morning hours of Sunday, May 5, debris from Halley's Comet will light up the sky in this year's Eta…

In the Webcomic Guide to the Apocalypse, I've been drawing short comics about very early apocalyptic fiction. So…

We know that the world isn't going to end on the 21st of December (or at least isn't more likely to end then than…

This weekend marked the peak of this year's stunning Orionid meteor shower. Photographs of the annual celestial…

The Orionid meteor shower — one of the year's most spectacular natural light shows — is upon us. This weekend, Earth…

In the pantheon of naturist astro-Dracula cinema, very few films outclass Lifeforce. Replete with astronauts…

Ancient Greek texts reveal the earliest recorded sighting of the solar system's most famous comet 2,500 years ago.…

We say pictures can't replace memories, but when Halley's Comet last swooped across the sky, many of us were too…