Comets are small, roundish bodies made of dust grains mixed with ice. Most travel along elliptical orbits that occasionally bring them close to the Sun. The main icy body of the comet is its nucleus.

HOUSTON — The Houston Comets are officially returning to the WNBA, nearly two decades after the franchise folded, with Rockets ownership saying restoring the Comets name and legacy was just as ...

HOUSTON — When Houston Rockets president of business operations Gretchen Sheirr first joined the organization as a ticket sales representative in the summer of 2001, her first task was to sell tickets ...

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A comet burns bright but fades quickly. Such was the fate of the original Houston Comets, one of the eight teams when the WNBA started in 1997. The Comets won the league’s first four championships but ...

The Houston Rockets organization made official on Thursday that its beloved Comets will return in 2027, after the conclusion of the 2026 WNBA season, as the Connecticut Sun franchise prepares to ...

Soon after it was announced that Tilman Fertitta was buying the WNBA’s Connecticut Sun and moving them to Houston, there was some concern about the league being able to re-secure the franchise’s old ...

A medieval monk may have beaten Edmond Halley to one of astronomy’s greatest discoveries by nearly 700 years. Researchers say Eilmer of Malmesbury recognized that the blazing comet seen in 1066 was ...

Astronomers using radio telescope observations to get an inside look at an interstellar comet have gleaned new insights into when and where the celestial object formed. The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, ...

Measurements of this interstellar comet’s molecular makeup show an excess of heavy water molecules that is dramatically different from anything known to have ever formed around our sun Astronomers ...