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

For a long time, the end of the Ice Age felt like a slow fading rather than a sharp break. Mammoths vanished. Old ways of ...

A fragmented comet was thought to have exploded over the Earth almost 13,000 years ago and could explain a massive ...

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

The unusual behaviour of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has reignited online debate, but astronomers say the gaps in public ...

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

Researchers say atmospheric blasts could explain mass extinctions and the sudden cooling of the climate at the beginning of ...

Scientists are continuing to strengthen the case that a fragmented comet exploded in Earth's atmosphere nearly 13,000 years ...

We're taking a look back at 10 of the most memorable space moments from 2025, as we leap into a new year that's sure to be ...

A fire at Le Constellation bar in the Alpine ski resort of Crans-Montana in the Swiss Alps has left "several dozens" of people ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major ...

Construction crews have been working to clear the rubble of a Pennsylvania nursing home, a day after a powerful explosion killed two people at the building in the US state. Searchers have accounted ...