Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New research finds shocked quartz at key sites, strengthening the case for a comet airburst during Ice Age extinctions. (CREDIT: ...

Images of the space around the sun show the comet approaching the star intact—but only a shower of debris came the other side ...

Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major Clovis-era sites, researchers found shocked quartz—evidence of intense heat ...

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 ...

Almost 13,000 years ago, North America underwent drastic changes at a rapid rate. Mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, and many other large animals went extinct. Around the same time, the Clovis ...