- Nature
- By Laura Sinpetru
- September 3rd, 2013
Asteroid Hit Quebec Some 12,900 Years Ago, Caused a Sudden Drop in Global Temperatures
Researchers claim that a cosmic impact should be blamed for the Younger Dryas cooling
- Science Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- July 12th, 2013
Spectacular Shots of the Departing Pan-STARRS Comet – Gallery
Astronomers and stargazers are anticipating the upcoming ISON comet
- Science Blog
- By Laura Sinpetru
- June 8th, 2013
The Draconid Meteor Shower in 2011 Left Behind a Ton of Meteoric Material
The meteoric material was all deposited in our planet's atmosphere
- Science Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- June 3rd, 2013
Asteroid Has Million-Kilometer Tail, Actually Wanted to Be a Comet
The tail is the result of a powerful impact which disintegrated the asteroid
- Nature
- By Laura Sinpetru
- May 22nd, 2013
Giant Meteor Likely Responsible for the Mammoths' Going Extinct
Researchers believe the mammoths failed to adapt to the rapid climate change
- Science Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- April 24th, 2013
Hubble Photographs Comet of the Century ISON
The comet still has a long way to go until it gets close to the sun and becomes visible
- Science
- By Laura Sinpetru
- March 23rd, 2013
A Comet Was What Killed the Dinosaurs, New Study Says
The dinosaurs' demise could not have been caused by an asteroid, specialists claim
- Space
- By Lucian Parfeni
- March 6th, 2013
Comets Can Create and Carry the Building Blocks of Life, Researchers Found
Scientists have shown that complex organic material can be created on comets
- Space
- By Lucian Parfeni
- February 27th, 2013
Giant Comet May Crash into Mars, the Impact Would Leave a Crater 500 Km, 310 Mi Across
A newly discovered comet will come dangerously close to Mars next year
- History
- By Laura Sinpetru
- February 8th, 2013
Dinosaurs Became Extinct Earlier Than Thought
Their falling off the biodiversity map can be linked to either a comet, or an asteroid
- Science Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- February 6th, 2013
Deep Impact Comet Hunter Gets a Closer Look at "Comet of the Century" ISON – Video
ISO is approaching the sun, probably on its first flyby
- Science Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- January 30th, 2013
Amateur Comet Hunters Win Cash for Their Discoveries
Being an amateur astronomer is rarely a profitable venture
- Science Blog
- By Lucian Parfeni
- January 21st, 2013
You Can Use This Tool to Track ISON, the Comet of the Century
The comet will become incredibly bright later in the year
- Space
- By Lucian Parfeni
- November 9th, 2012
Hundreds of Trillions of Comets Around Gassy Star Bump into Each Other Every Six Seconds
They release a huge amount of CO2 around the star
- General Business
- By Ionut Arghire
- January 4th, 2012
Microsoft Sues Comet for Selling Counterfeit Windows XP and Vista CDs
The company claims that a number of 94,000 sets of counterfeits were produced and sold
- Operators
- By Ionut Arghire
- November 1st, 2010