NEW YORK (AP) — Prepare to spot a rare, bright comet. The space rock is slinging toward Earth from the outer reaches of the solar system and will make its closest pass on Saturday. It should be ...

Meteors are essentially pieces of space rock, which are chunks of big comets ... told Wicked Local in a past interview. The parent comet for the Eta Aquariid meteor shower is the well known, Halley’s ...

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The Eta Aquarids are known for their fast meteors but probably more so for their parent—the famous Halley’s Comet.

A meteor shower famous for its speedy balls of space debris that spectators can spot streaking across the night sky is due to peak in the coming days.

Melted Rock These pieces of once-molten rock ... quartz crystals could only have been caused by a massive asteroid or comet impact. The pattern is prevalent in quartz found at or near the ...

When a new comet appears in the sky, there is often excitement. But things don’t always end well for the ancient celestial objects, made of ice, frozen gases and rock, as they near the sun — and an ...