Amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake made a pilgrimage to the University of Chicago’s Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wis., Sunday night for the closest glimpse of his comet that he’ll probably ever ...

Even though so much of what we see in the night sky is predictable, comets, those icy relics left over from the earliest days of our solar system, still offer lots of uncertainty. Once a new comet is ...

There's an action-packed drama in the heavens this month. Even as you read this, Comet Hyakutake is skimming past the Earth, far closer than any other heavenly body except the Moon, in a celestial ...

Peter Christine was not impressed. But when you are only 4 years old, as the Bethlehem boy is, it takes more than a visitor from the other side of the galaxy to leave one struck with awe. No matter ...

Yuji Hyakutake, an amateur Japanese astronomer known for his discovery of a comet in 1996 that was later dubbed Comet Hyakutake, died Wednesday evening, his family said Thursday. He was 51. According ...

Legend has it that the arrival of a comet precedes the end of empires and the downfall of governments. So if President Clinton’s aura is anything but radiant, chalk it up to Comet Hyakutake, which is ...

CNN-- Comet Hyakutake, which swept closest to Earth last week, emitted strong X-rays as it passed, according to U.S. and German scientists.Any level of X-rays would have grabbed the interest of ...