Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-Atlas will be visible to the naked eye for the first time in 80,000 years.

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Comet A3 hasn't been past Earth since the Neanderthals. It'll be visible across the Northern Hemisphere in October; here's ...

KOIN 6 Meteorologist Josh Cozart explains the chance to see a comet over the PNW skies this weekend.

"A secret, by logic, is information that may be important, or at least something that other people may need to know about," ...

One of the more fascinating theories I’ve encountered comes from a book called The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: How a Stone-Age Comet Changed the Course of World Culture. Like my Planet of the ...

Dinosaur footprints reveal secrets from a distant past. The discovery of identical tracks on two continents now separated by the Atlantic provides insight into prehistoric migrations. Left: Theropod ...

The discovery of a Neanderthal named Thorin reveals a previously unknown lineage that diverged from other Neanderthals 100,000 years ago and remained isolated. This finding suggests that Neanderthals ...

Archaeologists and geneticists had been locked in disagreement for several years about the remains of a Neanderthal named Thorin, after one of the dwarfs from JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit.

A clue lies in how much harder it was to grow up as a Neanderthal kid, suggests a recent study in the journal Scientific Reports.

Despite making its appearance only once every roughly 75 years, Halley’s Comet is perhaps one of the most famous objects in the night sky. It last passed by Earth in 1986, and both astronomers and ...

In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several years, the team, lead by Ludovic Slimak, found more of the ...