1986 The Dallas Morning News, March 31, 1986, guest column by Mikel Longoria. (The Dallas Morning News) The general consensus was that the visibility of Halley’s Comet in ’86 was not going to ...

So while Halley’s Comet isn't close at all to us at present—in fact, it’s outside the orbit of Neptune—it’s lurking out there in the same field of view as the radiant point of the ...

Halley’s Comet is the most famous comet of all time, ... was back in 1986. Since then, the comet has been slowing and was traveling at just 2,034 miles per hour when it hit its aphelion this year.

In 1986, as Halley’s Comet made its journey of once every 76 years past the sun, a San Diego researcher had a front row seat. Dr. Asoka D. Mendis, ...

On July 2, 1985, the European Space Agency launched the Giotto space probe to get a close-up look at Halley's Comet. Nearly nine months later on March 14, 1986, Giotto became the first spacecraft to ...

In fact, on Jan. 24, 1986, as Halley`s Comet nears the sun, the Voyager II spacecraft is scheduled to encounter the planet Uranus and send photos back to Earth.

The tablet recording the 164 B.C. passage of Halley`s comet is displayed alongside another describing the comet`s return in 87 B.C. While the British Museum has had these Babylonian tablets for a ...

More Halley's Comet. Getty. Did you see Halley’s comet when it was last in our inner Solar System in 1986? One of, if not the, most famous comet of all, its trip around the Sun 36 years ago left ...

Liller/International Halley Watch/NASA Halley’s Comet has had its close-ups, too. In March 1986, the European Space Agency’s Giotto spacecraft took a photo tour of the comet.