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Probably 4.5 billion years! But we only have written records of it since 239 BC, and bearing Halley’s name since 1759. Each time it comes back, because the sun melts some of it, it gets smaller. Eventually, as all comets that orbit the sun, it will die out – perhaps several billion years from now!
