Vast patches of glassy rocks found across the Chilean Atacama Desert may have been formed due to intense heat from a comet exploding in the Earth’s atmosphere about 12,000 years ago, a new study has ...

Even with a bright Moon spoiling the view, a visitor from another star system is making its presence known. Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1 ATLAS) is not just passing through; it is actively ...

A dark, carbon-rich layer of soil stretches across parts of North America like a bruise in the geologic record, a “black scar” that some researchers argue marks the moment an ancient apocalypse ...

In 1994, the fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet smashed into Jupiter with a force equal to 300 million atomic bombs.