New evidence suggests that a comet explosion over North America may have triggered a massive wave of destruction nearly 13,000 years ago, killing off mammoths and mastodons and wiping out one of the ...

Evidence of a cosmic explosion over our planet around 13,000 years ago suggests that it rocked life during the Ice Age. This explosion of cometary fragments might have had a hand in the disappearance ...

This newly discovered comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS), a rare Kreutz sungrazer, could blaze brightly in early April — or it could ...