Pope Francis is being treated for a “polymicrobial infection.” Doctors say it is caused by multiple pathogens, including ...

In August 1684 a handsome young astronomer named Edmond Halley boarded the London coach for Cambridge and sat back to ponder the events that had set him on an important mission. Earlier in the ...

EDMUND HALLEY was a very great man. He was not only the first to predict correctly the return of a comet, that which is now known by his name, but also—before Newton had announced his results to ...

ON January 14, 1742, died Edmond Halley, a remarkable man whose name is familiar to the public through the famous comet that is called after him. Born on October 29, 1656, in affluent ...

That you could in fact predict when comets come back. 'And that is exactly what he and his friend Edmund Halley set out to do. PROF. SIMON SCHAFFER:'If they could use the theory of gravitation 'to ...