Amazing footage has captured the moment an asteroid smashed through Earth's atmosphere over Siberia ... showing the asteroid bursting into a ball of flames as it streaked across the night sky ...

How do you find a comet that could pose a threat to Earth but hasn't passed our planet in the last 200 years or more? You look for its footprint. "This research gets us closer to defending Earth ...

The Quadrantids, the first meteor shower of the New Year, has the potential to be one of the year's best – if the weather ...

Earth is constantly bombarded by space debris, from the tons of cosmic dust that lands on the planet daily to rare, huge, dinosaur-killing asteroids that arrive from deep space every tens of millions ...

Artist's rendering of a comet headed ... Billions of years ago, Earth was a chaotic place, constantly battered by massive meteorites. One of the biggest strikes came around 3.26 billion years ago, ...

Where do Earth's oceans come from? The debate on whether water may have been originally delivered to our planet by comets striking its surface has reopened after a new groundbreaking study.

Halley’s comet will nevertheless make an impact this week when bits of it left in the solar system from previous visits come crashing into Earth's atmosphere as spectacular “shooting stars.” ...

A reanalysis of the data from the "rubber-ducky" comet 67P, collected nearly a decade ago, suggests comets may have deposited a lot more water on Earth than ... dust particles into the coma ...