However, new research has revealed that an 11th-century English monk named Eilmer of Malmesbury actually recognized the comet ...

The comet the world knows as Halley’s Comet may owe its “first to spot the pattern” credit to someone far earlier than Edmond Halley: an 11th-century English monk. New interdisciplinary research ...

There is a tendency of history to give the wrong name to the right idea, particularly where the idea is bright enough to be noticed on the other side of the continent. Over centuries, the Halley comet ...

An 11th-century monk saw the famous "Halley's comet" first as a child and later as an adult, new research finds.

The release in question is based on a book chapter in which Professor Michael Lewis of the British Museum and Professor Simon ...

An interdisciplinary investigation published this week has called into question the authorship of one of the most celebrated astronomical discoveries of the modern era: the determination of the cycle ...

The British astronomer and mathematician Edmond Halley was not, after all, the first to understand the cycle of the comet ...

This photo of Halley's comet was taken by the Russian Vega 2 spacecraft, one of two Soviet probes (Vega 1 was the other) to rendezvous with the comet during its 1986 trip through the solar system in ...