Halley’s Comet orbits the Sun, traveling from the outer reaches of the solar system to the inner solar system and back, leaving a trail of debris in its wake. This debris is responsible for the meteor ...

What is a meteor shower? As the Earth orbits the sun, several times a year it passes through debris left by passing comets and sometimes asteroids. The source of the Eta Aquarids is debris from Halley ...

There's a blaze of light across the sky! A fireball is seen by thousands, and mobile phone and dashcam footage soon appears ...

Once you remember that the sun also orbits the solar system's common center of mass, it all makes sense. Our sun is wobbling, and this has a huge impact upon the regularity of many of Earth's meteor ...

There’s a lot to see in the night sky -- the familiar Moon, stars and planets. But there’s the unexpected, too -- something ...

From gravel-size meteoroids to mountain-size asteroids and even visitors from other star systems, space is packed with ...

A few have been affected by some passing star and deflected into lopsided orbits that carry them periodically down toward the sun. These are the comets that become visible to man’s eye and ...

At first glance, this may seem surprising. Most comets follow highly elliptical orbits that can take many years to complete, while meteor showers happen around the same time every year.

The planet orbits its host star in just 30.5 hours, losing a mass of material roughly equal to Mount Everest each time ...

"The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers [5.6 million miles] long," said MIT astronomer ...

AP Halley’s Comet orbits the Sun, traveling from the outer reaches of the solar system to the inner solar system and back, leaving a trail of debris in its wake. This debris is responsible for ...

and regular showers of shooting stars happen when Earth travels through comets’ orbits. Sometimes shooting stars burn with colours that reflect their composition – including iron, magnesium ...