Images posted on social media show a plume of fire and black smoke coming up from the crash site at the Essex airport.

When a package holiday jet crashed on a remote hillside 55 years ago today, the authorities ordered all 105 passengers and ...

Police have now confirmed that a 12-metre plane crashed shortly before 4pm.  Residents are being advised to avoid the area as emergency services carry out their work.  A spokesman for Essex Police ...

Dean Regas chats with astronomer David Levy, unpacking the discovery of the famous Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. Listen in and find out how you can start chasing comets yourself.

Another comet that crashed into Jupiter back in 1994 left huge, dark scars throughout the planet’s atmosphere and sent superheated plumes into Jupiter’s stratosphere.

A new image captured by a telescope in Chile looks like a dazzling comet with a long, glowing tail. Instead, it’s the debris plume created when NASA’s DART spacecraft crashed into the asteroid ...