In 1910, people around the world watched the skies with anticipation, and no small amount of fear, as Halley's Comet made its way past Earth on its way around the sun. Returning every 76 years, Halley ...

Pieces of Halley's Comet are set to blaze across the skies tonight, but the famous comet has a dark history of fueling chilling doomsday fears.

Fragments of the famous Halley's Comet create one of the most interesting astronomical spectacles every October, the Orionid meteor shower. The phenomenon also brings to mind an unusual story from ...