New research suggests a comet explosion helped cause ice age extinctions, sudden cooling, and the loss of early human cultures.
In space, death can be a beautiful thing. That's certainly the case for the recently deceased "other" comet ATLAS, which is slowly breaking apart after meeting its explosive end earlier this month, ...
Scientists are continuing to strengthen the case that a fragmented comet exploded in Earth's atmosphere nearly 13,000 years ...
On July 1, 2025, the NASA-funded ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile detected 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object to enter our solar system. Traveling through space at approximately 61 ...