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The Leonids are created by debris left over from a comet called 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. “As comets orbit the sun, the ice sublimes ...

Faster and more brilliant than regular shooting stars, the Leonid meteor shower is making its annual return to the skies.

Faster and more brilliant than regular shooting stars, the Leonid meteor shower is making its annual return to the skies.

The Full Super Moon occults the Pleiades, the ice giant Uranus reaches opposition, and the Leonid meteor shower peaks in the ...

A five kilometre-wide comet known as Tempel–Tuttle orbits the sun every 33 years, and the Earth passes through its orbit every November ... s shower will be around 1 or 2 a.m. For those in ...

The Leonid meteor shower, considered a major shower, will bring along fireballs and "Earth-grazer" meteors. How to watch.

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

The cryovolcanic "centaur" comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has erupted four times in less than 48 hours, becoming unusually ...

On 12 November 2014, after a 10-year journey through the solar system and over 500 million kilometers from home, Rosetta's lander Philae made space exploration history by touching down on a comet for ...

It frightened the people half to death." 33 years later, Ernst Tempel and Horace Tuttle independently discovered the 55P comet and calculated its orbit to 33.17 years. This is how 55P/Tempel ...

The Leonid meteor shower is caused by space debris from Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle, which collides with Earth's atmosphere. Two independent discoveries of the comet were made by Ernst Tempel in 1865 ...