There's a lot of stuff out there in the asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt, and the Oort Cloud. One of the smaller rocks will be whizzing by Earth on Friday:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9860421/Record-close-asteroid-may-miss-the-Earth-but-it-could-take-out-your-phone.html
Some of the events described in the Book of Revelation sound like swarms of meteors and comets striking the Earth. This probably happened in the early days of the planet, and I believe this is the source of the methane hydrate deposits beneath the ocean floor.
It could certainly happen again.
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