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 ...

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

There’s a giant, peanut-shaped object orbiting the Sun, and it’s name is Halley’s comet. Like all comets, it’s a cosmic mashup of frozen ice, gases, and dust. Stretching a vast 15 kilometers by 8 ...

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 ...