CLOUDCROFT, NEW MEXICO. July 23, 2005 marks the ten-year anniversary of the discovery of Comet Hale-Bopp, and co-discoverer Dr. Alan Hale is announcing plans for an event to celebrate the occasion.

PHOENIX — A Glendale man who was the first to spot the Comet Hale-Bopp reportedly died this week at the age of 68. The Washington Post reported that Thomas Bopp died Friday in Phoenix. His daughter ...

Twenty years ago Wednesday, Las Vegas lawyer and amateur astronomer John Mowbray took a photo for the ages — Comet Hale-Bopp hurtling through the evening sky over Red Rock Canyon at 43,000 mph. “The ...

Fifteen years ago on this day, the comet Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth, at a distance of 1.315 AU (1 AU = 93 million miles). The comet had been discovered independently by two amateur ...

Comets — those small, icy objects orbiting the sun — act like floating time capsules, offering a window into the early days of our solar system's formation and holding clues about the origins of life ...

Since the early 1970s, a succession of so-called comets of the century have drawn jeers and yawns from non-astronomers, each one falling far short of its prearrival hype. The much-ballyhooed Kohoutek ...

As they ran through the Langford School gymnasium door to search the Thursday night sky for stars and planets, the kids didn’t need a telescope to find the evening’s main attraction. “There it is!

After dusk, look to the west-northwest to find comet Hale-Bopp in the first half of May. On May 8th, the comet and moon may both be seen in a pair of binoculars at the same time. It may be difficult ...

Amateur astronomer Thomas Bopp died earlier this month at the age of 68. He never achieved the fame of Britain's Edmond Halley, whose namesake comet comes to visit the Earth about every 75 years or so ...

Twenty years ago, on July 23, 1995, astronomers Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp independently discovered the comet that would end up bearing their names. Hale-Bopp, officially C/1995 O1, was cruising by ...

Fifteen years ago on this day, the comet Hale-Bopp made its closest approach to Earth, at a distance of 1.315 AU (1 AU = 93 million miles). The comet had been discovered independently by two amateur ...