YR4, the "city-killer" asteroid that briefly made headlines last year due to a small but non-zero chance that it may hit the ...

SEAFORD, England -- A meteoroid was filmed moving through the sky over southern England early Monday morning. Footage by Twitter user @KrisztiUk shows the one-meter object, described by the European ...

Meteoroid streams are coherent groups of debris originating primarily from cometary or asteroidal fragmentation, which travel through the Solar System along similar orbital paths. As Earth intersects ...

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The planet Mercury is being pelted regularly by bits of dust from an ancient comet, a new study has concluded. This has a discernible effect in the planet’s tenuous atmosphere and may lead to a new ...