Analysis of ocean sediments has surfaced geochemical clues in line with the possibility that an encounter with a disintegrating comet 12,800 years ago in the Northern Hemisphere triggered rapid ...

Mainstream science has done its best to debunk the notion, but a belief in a world-changing series of prehistoric impacts continues to gain momentum. Credit...Photo illustration by Ricardo Tomás ...

The Hopewell are the ancestors of the Haudenosaunee and the Algonquin peoples. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Astronomy and ...

Astronomers as far back as Aristotle have speculated about the sudden appearance of comets that blaze through the night sky. Aristotle believed that comets erupted from the Earth into the heavens, ...

When NASA set out to slam a spacecraft into a comet, the goal was not spectacle but data: a controlled impact that could peel ...

NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft successfully crashed into Comet Tempel 1 early Monday. Scientists arranged the collision in an effort to learn more about the physical makeup of comets. A wealth of data ...