Two minor meteor showers — the Southern Delta Aquariids and Alpha Capricornids — peak overnight on July 29-30, making it a ...

Halley's comet swings near Earth every 75 years. But debris left by the comet leads to two major meteor showers every year including the Eta Aquarids.

The newly discovered space rock may be older than our entire solar system, and you may get the chance to see it ...

The object seems to be travelling on a steep path - suggesting it came from the Milky Way's "thick disk", an area of ancient ...

Halley's Comet was last visible from Earth in 1986 and will not return for several decades, yet the material it left in the inner solar system continues to cause annual meteor showers. This cosmic ...

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

“Halley’s comet does not leave the same numbers of particles behind each year,” making it hard to predict what kind of show viewers will see, said Cooke. How to view a meteor shower.

On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope, located in northern Chile, ...

On July 2, 1985, the European Space Agency launched the Giotto space probe to get a close-up look at Halley's Comet. Nearly nine months later on March 14, 1986, Giotto became the first spacecraft to ...

Halley's comet last entered the inner solar system in 1986 and is due back in 2061. Getty. As there wasn’t enough excitement about comets this month, here’s a chance to see the impact of ...

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...