New evidence suggests that a comet explosion over North America may have triggered a massive wave of destruction nearly ...

Almost 13,000 years ago, North America underwent drastic changes at a rapid rate. Mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, ...

New research suggests a comet explosion helped cause ice age extinctions, sudden cooling, and the loss of early human cultures.

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...

Did mammoths, sabre-tooth tigers and other Ice Age megafauna face a similar, impact-induced fate to the dinosaurs? That’s ...

Recently discovered Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) will make its closest approach to the sun and Earth in late April and could ...

A new study suggests a comet exploded in the sky 13,000 years ago. This event caused Earth's sudden cooling, known as the ...