Halley’s comet swings near Earth every 75 years. But debris left by the comet leads to two major meteor showers annually.

When this meteor shower lights up the night sky, “you’ll know that Earth is crossing the path of the most famous comet,” said Shauna Edson of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. The Eta ...

As the ice runs out, gas gradually stops being released, and the comet dims, he said. “It looks like we’re now pretty much at the point where the ice/gas is just about all gone, so all that’ ...

The Westville baseball team after earning its second consecutive undefeated Vermilion Valley Conference title with a win over ...

The comet brightened pretty quickly, and it now has a magnitude of +7.8 – not bright enough for our own eyes, but visible with a small telescope or binoculars. But the best is yet to come ...

When this meteor shower lights up the night sky, “you’ll know that Earth is crossing the path of the most famous comet,” said ...

“you’ll know that Earth is crossing the path of the most famous comet,” said Shauna Edson of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. The Eta Aquarids are “pretty fast meteors ...

Some Utahns got a glimpse of a real phenomenon Saturday night: a meteor barreling through the Earth's atmosphere — so big that our NASA solar system ambassador called it a fireball.