In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it passed close to the sun.

Residents in Northeast Cleveland heard a loud explosion the morning of St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 2026. So, was it an actual meteor?

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 ...