ELGIN, S.C. — A lot of attention has been generated in the South Carolina town of Elgin following the earthquakes there in recent months. But Elgin is also making headlines for a stunning discovery ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The search for exploding comet residue strong enough to have wiped out the woolly mammoth has dipped deep ...

Researchers continue to expand the case for the Younger Dryas Impact hypothesis. The idea proposes that a fragmented comet smashed into the Earth’s atmosphere 12,800 years ago, causing a widespread ...

Interview with Dr. Christopher R. Moore, University of South Carolina, U.S. Author of PLOS One paper: Moore CR, Tselmovich VA, LeCompte MA, West A, Culver SJ, Mallinson DJ, et al. (2025) A 12,800-year ...

The 'Big Freeze', or more formally the 'Younger Dryas stadial', is a roughly 1300 year time-span — between 12,800 years ago and 11,500 years ago — when the planet suddenly reverted back to ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — Researchers continue to build on a body of evidence for a fragmented comet that is thought to have exploded over the Earth almost 13,000 years ago, which may have had a role ...

Touchdown airbursts are a form of cosmic impact that may happen more often than the well-known, crater-forming events linked to mass extinctions ...

In a groundbreaking study, researchers have uncovered compelling evidence of a comet that exploded in Earth’s atmosphere 12,800 years ago. The discovery, detailed in the journal PLOS One, stems from ...

Cosmic “touchdown airbursts” — explosions of comets or asteroids above Earth’s surface — may be far more common and ...