Göbekli Tepe may have been intentionally buried by its builders—12,000 years ago. New theories suggest some pillars at the site mark time, track lunar months, and even align with the Taurid meteor ...

The comet was discovered in its final stage before impact. As luck would have it, NASA had a probe on its way to Jupiter, ...

A decades-long scientific debate over the origins of the Silverpit Crater in the southern North Sea has been resolved. New evidence confirms that it was caused by an asteroid or comet impact about ...

A "devil" comet's water is strikingly similar to the water on Earth, researchers have discovered. The finding supports the idea that water was brought to our planet through comet impacts, helping set ...

(Phys.org) —NASA today announced the end of operations for the Deep Impact spacecraft, history's most traveled deep-space comet hunter, after trying unsuccessfully for more than a month to regain ...